Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-21 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:18:35PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:39:54PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: Nope, still no password prompt This is strange... you didn't add yourself to group `sudo' did you? members of this group are never required to authenticate. Argh!

sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
I set up an /etc/sudoers file to give user rvf the ability to run anything, but be asked for a password. As the example files shows, I set it up like this: rvf ALL = ALL The problem is that whenever I run a command with sudo, it works but I'm never asked for a password. Would

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rick Rezinas
Never? That is very odd...I know that sudo can be compiled to or not to timeout after a bit of time...and debian has a timeout (somewhere between 5 and 15 minutes methinks). I'm not sure if this can be changed w/o compiling from the source yourself. But I think it's way nicer to not have to

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:10:12PM -0800, Rick Rezinas wrote: Never? That is very odd...I know that sudo can be compiled to or not to timeout after a bit of time...and debian has a timeout (somewhere between 5 and 15 minutes methinks). I'm not sure if this can be changed w/o compiling from

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rick Rezinas
try it like this in sudoers: rvf ALL=(ALL) ALL I'm also on testing and not having issues. rick On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: I set up an /etc/sudoers file to give user rvf the ability to run anything, but be asked for a password. As the example files shows, I set it up like

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Rob VanFleet
Nope, still no password prompt This is strange... -Rob On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:19:39PM -0800, Rick Rezinas wrote: try it like this in sudoers: rvf ALL=(ALL) ALL I'm also on testing and not having issues. rick On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: I set up an

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Nope, still no password prompt This is strange... The line you're looking for is: rvf ALL=PASSWD: ALL If that doesn't work, something really is odd. - -- -

Re: sudo strangeness

2001-02-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:39:54PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: Nope, still no password prompt This is strange... you didn't add yourself to group `sudo' did you? members of this group are never required to authenticate. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpdYSAinUfTa.pgp