Re: sudo is acting up

[Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>]

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:38:40AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Yesterday I changed the root password on my machine, but sudo will only
> function with the OLD password for authentication.

Huh?  Sudo doesn't care what the root password is:

rei $ ls -l `which sudo`
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        85592 2003-04-16 11:37 /usr/bin/sudo

It's already suid-root.  That's how it does what it does.

It cares what YOUR password is.  Your normal login password.  Did you
change that one? :)

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