[Techtalk] [OFF TOPIC] sudo weirdness on Solaris 8

mc mcgonzalez at att.net
Tue Oct 8 15:16:05 EST 2002


On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:10, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> 
> I am pulling my hair out over a weird problem.  We have several Solaris
> 8 boxes.  I can use sudo just fine on them.  Another user here cannot. 
> In csh it asks for his password and does nothing.  In bash it asks for
> his password, says "broken pipe" and does nothing.
> 
> We use NIS, and neither of us have local accounts on the machine in
> question.  Sudo is normally in /usr/local/bin and is mounted from
> another machine.  I tried having a local copy in /usr/bin and there was
> no difference.  Tried having him do away with his .cshrc or
> .bash_profile temporarily to see if it was an environment issue -- nope,
> no change.  I can't, in fact, see anything substantially different
> between his account and mine.
> 
> Any clues?
> 

Hi Caity,

Just a thought, but how is his account set up in the sudoers file?  Are
there any differences in there?


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