Sudo password fails even though it is correct [Fedora]

Newer fedora distros keep track of authentication failure attempts.

This may prevent sudo from working even though the password is correct!

In this example, I verified my user ‘ben’ is in /etc/sudoers

# grep ben /etc/sudoers
ben     ALL=(ALL)       ALL

Yet when I performed a simple operation the password was not accepted

# su - ben
[ben@bedora37]$ 
[ben@bedora37]$ sudo bash -c ls
[sudo] password for ben:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for ben:
Sorry, try again.

I could verify the password I am using is correct by performing an SSH to localhost

# ssh ben@localhost
password
#

The problem in this case was that I needed to reset the failure lock

# faillock
ben:
When                Type  Source                                           Valid
2023-04-15 16:33:01 TTY   /dev/pts/1                                           V
2023-04-15 16:33:10 TTY   /dev/pts/1                                           V
2023-04-15 16:33:20 TTY   /dev/pts/1                                           V
root:
When                Type  Source                                           Valid

I reset via

# faillock --user ben --reset
#

Now my simple ls works

# su - ben
[ben@bedora37]$ 
[ben@bedora37]$ sudo bash -c ls
[sudo] password for ben:
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  logs  Music  Pictures  Public  snap Videos
[ben@bedora37]$