sudo keeps asking me for my password in fish shell
sudo in Ubuntu keeps asking me for my password for every command. Previously, I only had to enter the password once, and then it would be remembered for a period of time. This recently changed, probably after "upgrading" to Natty.
I've done sudo visudo
and set Defaults env_reset, timestamp_timeout = 60
, tried rebooting, but it's still not working. How do I fix this?
After suggestions below, my /etc/sudoers
looks like this:
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# directly modifying this file.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
Defaults:endolith timestamp_timeout=60
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
Update:
I upgraded my VirtualBox and it started to suffer from the same problem. At a guess, I ran bash, and tried to sudo in that, and the password is remembered correctly. It's only when I use my default shell fish that it doesn't remember. It did in the previous Ubuntu release, but no longer.
Update:
I upgraded to 13.05 and this magically started working again. Now it asks for my password once, stops asking for a while, and then asks again after a period of time.
Solution 1:
@endolith: Yes, it only seems to affect fish. I had the same problem, the issue is caused by the sudo option "tty_tickets". Disabling this on your /etc/sudoers file will solve the problem.
The following will disable tty_tickets:
Defaults env_reset,!tty_tickets
Solution 2:
If nothing else works, try sudo -i
(by itself). That'll give you a root shell after one password.