[sudo-users] What are sudo timestamps used for?

[Leroy Tennison]

Thank you, I appreciate the information.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com>
To: "Leroy Tennison" <leroy at datavoiceint.com>
Cc: "sudo-users" <sudo-users at sudo.ws>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:07:55 AM
Subject: Re: [sudo-users] What are sudo timestamps used for?

Sudo uses the time stamp files to track when you last ran sudo in
order to determine whether it should prompt for a password.  By
default, if you've run sudo in the past 5 minutes you don't need
to enter the password again.

Older versions of sudo use one file per login terminal.  Sudo 1.8.15
and higher uses a single file per user that contains multiple
records.

You can safely remove the time stamp files, they will be recreated
as needed.

 - todd