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How to Specify Time Limit for a Sudo Session

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Karim Buzdar
Sep 10, 2018

While working with the sudo command for performing administrative tasks in Linux, you might have noticed that even if you have provided sudo password a while ago, you are asked to provide it again after some time. This tutorial describes how you can make very simple changes in the /etc/sudoers file to specify a time limit for a sudo session.
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Karim Buzdar

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