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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-02-05 23:31:54 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-02-05 23:31:54 +0000
commite7fa4316c2bf6f71dd851829824df85eaf17d4bd (patch)
tree5716ab05c054257d3281bd0f953088b16911cf23 /usr.bin/sudo/TROUBLESHOOTING
parent032e3e55c9462a20c0f9af0c4ba6374225707f3c (diff)
Update to Sudo 1.6.8p7
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diff --git a/usr.bin/sudo/TROUBLESHOOTING b/usr.bin/sudo/TROUBLESHOOTING
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--- a/usr.bin/sudo/TROUBLESHOOTING
+++ b/usr.bin/sudo/TROUBLESHOOTING
@@ -25,9 +25,19 @@ A) The operating system you are running probably has broken support for
option and rebuild sudo.
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.
+ says 'Sorry, try again.' three times and exits.
+A) You didn't setup PAM to work with sudo. On Redhat Linux or Fedora
+ Core this generally means installing sample.pam as /etc/pam.d/sudo.
+ See the sample.pam file for hints on what to use for other Linux
+ systems.
+
+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.
Q) Sudo is setup to log via syslog(3) but I'm not getting any log
messages.