On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 01:23:22PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > Try: chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo
it was installed with the suid bit set, so that's not an issue (thanks for mentioning it, though, i had neglected to check for that). but i believe i've figured out the problem. from auth.log, immediately preceding the sudo error: Nov 12 03:28:05 parakeetness pam[144]: unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/security/pam_pwdb.so) Nov 12 03:28:05 parakeetness pam[144]: [dlerror: libpwdb.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] Nov 12 03:28:05 parakeetness pam[144]: adding faulty module: /usr/lib/security/pam_pwdb.so clearly there is a dependency of pam on libpwdb which was not made explicit in the control file, since it was not installed on my system as a consequence of installing pam. moreover, the only package related to libpwdb on the mirrors is libpwdb-doc, which i doubt would help my situation much. does anyone know where i might find a libpwdb package? -chris
