diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/build.rb b/Library/Homebrew/build.rb
index 319f58df91..ab1a44e6e7 100755
--- a/Library/Homebrew/build.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/build.rb
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ at_exit do
     # dev tools into /usr/bin as a default
     ENV.prepend 'PATH', MacOS.dev_tools_path, ':' unless ORIGINAL_PATHS.include? MacOS.dev_tools_path
 
+    # Force any future invocations of sudo to require the user's password to be
+    # re-entered. This is in-case any build script call sudo. Certainly this is
+    # can be inconvenient for the user. But we need to be safe.
+    system "/usr/bin/sudo -k"
+
     install(Formula.factory($0))
   rescue Exception => e
     if ENV['HOMEBREW_ERROR_PIPE']