Fix sudo password timeout

[andrimanna]

maybe with sudo -i?

[lvps]

There are 2 parameters that can be added to the sudoers file:

• passwd_timeout controls the timeout for the "Type your password here NOW:" prompt
• timestamp_timeout controls how long sudo will keep your cached password (or authorization or something, I hope it doesn't actually cache a plaintext password)

Would one of these resolve the issue?

Unfortunately I see no way to pass these to sudo other than editing the configuration file, but we can use sudo once to customize it at the beginning, if it's quick enough everything should work smoothly.

sudo -i will log you in as another user and wait forever for a command, so it's probably no good. If we really want, we can use the script to re-launch itself with sudo but I don't really like this approach:

if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
  sudo $0 # or something, this is actually absurdly complicated in bash
  exit
fi

# do the usual stuff here