Re: [gentoo-user] odd sudo problem

[Ric Messier]

On 2003.11.07 15:08, Jacob Smullyan wrote:
Yes, I did do a real emerge sudo.  If I had installed it manually, I'd
be *really* surprised that it knew about /var/tmp/portage!
Didn't mean installed manually. You can effect the same as an emerge by 
doing a series of ebuild commands.

Ric

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[gentoo-user] odd sudo problem

[Jacob Smullyan]

I recently installed Gentoo on 4 servers.  On one of them, I get the
following error when I run sudo:

  # sudo su -
  sudo: can't stat /var/tmp/portage/sudo-1.6.7_p5/image//etc/sudoers: No
  such file or directory
  sendmail: Cannot open mail:25

The same error occurs when I try to run visudo.  Now, sendmail is one
problem; I haven't configured postfix yet on the box.  But the rest is
mystifying.  I've recompiled sudo several times, both with pam in my
USE and without pam.  Still the same thing.  The sudo version is
1.6.7_p5.  Anyone come across this?

Jacob Smullyan



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Re: [gentoo-user] odd sudo problem

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 18:31:59 -0500 Jacob Smullyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I recently installed Gentoo on 4 servers.  On one of them, I get the
 following error when I run sudo:
 
   # sudo su -
   sudo: can't stat /var/tmp/portage/sudo-1.6.7_p5/image//etc/sudoers: No
   such file or directory
   sendmail: Cannot open mail:25
 
 The same error occurs when I try to run visudo.  Now, sendmail is one
 problem; I haven't configured postfix yet on the box.  But the rest is
 mystifying.  I've recompiled sudo several times, both with pam in my
 USE and without pam.  Still the same thing.  The sudo version is
 1.6.7_p5.  Anyone come across this?
 

Looks like you haven't created the /etc/sudoers file.  Mine looks like this:

cut
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification

# User privilege specification
rootALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheelALL=(ALL)   ALL

# Same thing without a password
 %wheel ALL=(ALL)   NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
# %users  ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users  localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
/cut

Enjoy.

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Re: [gentoo-user] odd sudo problem

[Ric Messier]

On 2003.11.06 18:49, Collins Richey wrote:
Looks like you haven't created the /etc/sudoers file.  Mine looks like
this:
It actually looks like sudo believes its configuration files are in the 
location where the package was built. I assume you did a real emerge 
sudo?

Unfortunately, creating an /etc/sudoers file isn't going to help if 
sudo is looking elsewhere for sudoers.

Ric

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