Re: sudo oddity

[Chris Richards <chris-lists@parakeetness.ml.org>]

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