# Escalation Prompt Timeout?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/escalation-prompt-timeout/21277>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 26, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/escalation-prompt-timeout/21277 "2016-04-26T17:52:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tennis\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tennis\_Smith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tennis_Smith)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/escalation-prompt-timeout/21277/1 "2016-04-26T17:52:40Z")

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Hi,

I’m getting “Timeout (12s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt” errors. Can the escalation timeout value be changed somewhere?

Thanks,

-T

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**Author:** ![Johannes\_Kastl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Johannes\_Kastl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Johannes_Kastl)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/escalation-prompt-timeout/21277/2 "2016-05-03T05:23:04Z")

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Each time I have seen this error, waiting for minutes would not have  
solved the issue, as there should not be a prompt at all. At least  
with ssh keys and sudo with NOPASSWD. Or become\_pass stored in  
ansible-vault files.

Johannes