donnemartin/dev-setup

sudo timeouts during installs

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#15 opened on Feb 4, 2016

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Hi there,

Having run dev-setup on a few machines now (thanks! loving it so far) I've noticed that installs require typing the sudo password at various points, making unattended installs impossible.

A solution we used in Boxen for this problem was to ask for the user's sudo password at the beginning (using sudo -p) and periodically call sudo -p to prevent timeout or prompt the user again. Happy to put up a PR if you're interested.

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Modify the setup script to prompt for sudo password at start and periodically refresh to avoid timeouts.
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