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Yesterday I was trying to install larbs installation on a different user. It did not work and I had to delete the other user.

When I came back to my admin user I realised that it was not asking for my password anymore even though I was using sudo commands in my terminal.
Also while I was trying to make a new user, it didn't work as when I was trying to log into it and it comes back to my admin user page.

Please do reply as this causing me a lot of trouble as a college student as I have to separate my personal user from my college one.

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  • Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer.
    – Community Bot
    Commented Mar 14, 2023 at 9:03
  • What's your Linux distro (cat /etc/os-release and uname -a)? Exactly what commands did you use creating and deleting your new user? What other actions you took in that context? Can you please post output of cat /etc/sudoers? Do you have anything in /etc/sudoers.d/? If yes, please include the content of those files as well. Please don't answer in comments, edit the question instead so relevant info is available. Enclose commands and text output in the code brackets { } to preserve the formatting.
    – Peregrino69
    Commented Mar 14, 2023 at 9:43
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    Please edit and clarify: (1) What exactly did you do? With what exact commands/tools/windows/methods? (2) "it was not asking for my password anymore even though i was using sudo commands in my terminal" – Did the commands work? (3) "while im trying to make a new user, it does not work as when i try logging into it, it comes back to my admin user page" – What is the "admin user page"? My first connotation is with web pages you see in a browser. Do you log in via a browser? If so then maybe you do other things in a browser and this is something that contributes to the problem somehow.
    – Kamil Maciorowski
    Commented Mar 14, 2023 at 9:52

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In general, sudo will stop asking for passwords for a period of time. This is a 'user friendliness' feature. You can set this in /etc/sudoers. You have to edit that file with visudo.

Set this period with

USER timestamp_timeout=5

to set this period to 5 minutes, or

USER timestamp_timeout=0

to force asking for password every time.

Make also sure, that there is no rule with NOPASSWD applicable for you in this file.

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  • should i add the above to the sudoers file. i tried but nothing changed.
    – Axel Fire
    Commented Mar 15, 2023 at 11:55

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