making gksudo ask for password every time

austinium · 01-24-2011, 03:28 AM

Hi,

OS: Ubuntu 10.04
If you were to give gksudo the correct password it would then not ask for the password if you were to open any other application that requires root privileges. Maybe it does this only for a certain time interval(?) after which it starts asking for the password again. I am looking for a way to make gksudo ask for the password each time it is called.

I have noticed that files named .sudo_as_admin_successful & .gksu.lock are created when i used gksudo, but deleting this file has had no effect(gksudo doesn't ask for a password if i delete it).

help!

reed9 · 01-24-2011, 07:37 AM

Edit /etc/sudoers

Code:

sudo visudo

Add or change this line to

Code:

Defaults:USER_NAME timestamp_timeout=0