Chris,
Did you run etc-update, or dispatch-conf, to merge configuration file changes?
I ran into the same error on several systems, but once I fixed up the
configuration files changes, everything was fine.
Sean
On Sunday 26 June 2005 10:48 pm, Chris Ong wrote:
> Hi all,
> And recent upgrade sudo-1.6.8_p9 make sudo with password inpossible.
>
> After update sudo to the mentioned version, I get the problem and fixed
> by FAQ section in
>
> http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/troubleshooting.html
>
> Q) Sudo says 'Account expired or PAM config lacks an "account"
> section for sudo, contact your system administrator' and exits
> but I know my account has not expired.
> A) Your PAM config lacks an "account" specification. On Linux this
> usually means you are missing a line like:
> account required pam_unix.so
> in /etc/pam.d/sudo.
>
> But I was hung in this problem
>
> Q) When sudo asks me for my password it never accepts what I enter even
> though I know I entered my password correctly.
> A) If your system uses shadow passwords, it is possible that sudo
> didn't detect this. Take a look at the generated config.h file
> and verify that the C function used for shadow password lookups
> was detected. For instance, for SVR4-style shadow passwords,
> HAVE_GETSPNAM should be defined (you can search for the string
> "shadow passwords" in config.h with your editor). Note that
> there is no define for 4.4BSD-based shadow passwords since that
> just uses the standard getpw* routines.
>
> Well, this is totally out from me to get this done. Is it a bug or
> anything in sudo source or the gentoo sudo ebuild?
>
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> C. K. Ong (Chris)
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