The following options were used to configure sudo for Debian GNU/Linux. --with-exempt=sudo Any user in group 'sudo' will not need to type their password. It is strongly recommended that no users be put in group sudo, and that instead the NOPASSWD option in the sudoers file be used if desired. --with-pam Support for pluggable authentication modules. --with-fqdn Allow use of fully qualified domain names in the sudoers file. --disable-root-mailer Send mail as the invoking user, not as root. --with-logging=syslog --with-logfac=authpriv Where logging information goes. --with-env-editor --with-editor=/usr/bin/editor Honor the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables. If they are not present, default to the Debian default system editor. --with-timeout=15 --with-password-timeout=0 Allow 15 minutes before a user has to re-type their passord, versus the sudo usual default of 5. Never time out while waiting for a password to be typed, this is a seriously big deal for Debian package developers using 'dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo'. --with-secure-path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:\ /sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" Give a reasonable default path for commands run as root via sudo.