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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-01-24 04:22:55 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-01-24 04:22:55 +0000
commitd461006d249b4d292b92c585af010fa062af3fdd (patch)
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sudo 1.6.2
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ A) Sudo must be setuid root to do its work. You need to do something like
your $PATH before the directory containing sudo. If you are going
to have '.' in your path you should make sure it is at the end.
+Q) Sudo never gives me a chance to enter a password using PAM, it just
+ says 'Sorry, try again.' three times and quits.
+A) You didn't setup PAM to work with sudo. On Linux this generally
+ means installing sample.pam as /etc/pam.d/sudo.
+
Q) Sudo is setup to log via syslog(3) but I'm not getting any log
messages.
A) Make sure you have an entry in your syslog.conf file to save