[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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