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I have Ubuntu 10.04. Certain operations in the Terminal application or operations require me to type sudo [whatever command] and my password. I have noticed the effects of sudo last for awhile; five minutes or so.
How can I explicitly exit sudo and go back to being me at the command prompt?
Note that you’re not running
sudoto need to exit it, rather sudo remembers the last time you authenticated and doesn’t require re-authentication if that’s recent enough. This command will reset timestamp to the epoch. You can change the timeout value in the system configuration file:man sudoers.