How to Make sudo Remember the Password for Longer | Linux Today

How to Make sudo Remember the Password for Longer

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Bobby Borisov
Jan 4, 2022

Probably you execute quite a lot of sudo commands, because you don’t want to sudo su and execute commands as root all the time. Here’s how to make sudo remember your password for longer so that you don’t have to keep typing it over and over.

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Bobby Borisov

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