Re: sudo is acting up
--- Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> escribió:
> I thought you said your sid box does ask for a password? Then you said
> "I would like my unstable box to also ask for a password...".
My mistake. I meant that I want my STABLE box to prompt for a password.
>
> Anyway, assuming you mean you DO want the machine to ask for a password,
> no extra setup is necessary. The defaults are to ask for a password if
> the user hasn't authenticated within the last 15 minutes (IIRC).
>
> This behavior can be overriden with the NOPASSWD option, like this:
>
> vineet ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/ifup eth0
I don't have this option set in the sudoers file on either machine.
> If you're never getting any password prompts at all, and your sudoers
> file is pretty empty (no other options that are changing sudo's default
> behavior), you should also check /etc/pam.d/sudo.
I checked the files and they are both identical:
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_unix.so
But, my stable box never prompts for a password.
<SNIP>
>
> good times,
> Vineet
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