Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Alan Danziger wrote: > I've seen that behavior with a wildly incorrect timestamp file; try "sudo > -k" and see if that helps when you try again. That has been fixed a while ago. Wichert. pgpPAfzXqABzA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Richards
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:53:40PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > 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? > > libpwdb0g is in the lib directory. on which mirror, specifically? i've checked

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> 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? libpwdb0g is in the lib directory. -- Hartmut Koptein EMail: Friedrich-van-Senden-Str. 7

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Richards
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, imme

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Alan Danziger
At 4:06 AM -0500 11/12/98, Chris Richards wrote: [...] had -- without typing a thing -- failed to enter a valid password three times. hence it's pretty useless. i checked that my sudoers file I've seen that behavior with a wildly incorrect timestamp file; try "sudo -k" and see if that helps wh

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Hartmut Koptein
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:06:05AM -0500, Chris Richards wrote: > after installing the latest sudo and adding a user to sudoers with > which to test it, i encountered something strange -- namely, > immediately after i issued a command (for example, 'sudo ls') sudo > would print its ethics banner, a

sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Richards
after installing the latest sudo and adding a user to sudoers with which to test it, i encountered something strange -- namely, immediately after i issued a command (for example, 'sudo ls') sudo would print its ethics banner, and proceed to convince itself that i had -- without typing a thing -- fa