Re: sudo oddity

[Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

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, and proceed to convince itself that i
> had -- without typing a thing -- failed to enter a valid password
> three times. hence it's pretty useless. i checked that my sudoers file
> was correctly configured, diddled with pam, added myself to the sudo
> group, all met with no success. except for the latter: adding myself
> to the sudo group bent sudo to my will, but so much so that it didn't
> bother asking for a password, which for my purposes doesn't fit the
> bill.

Try:    chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo





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