topic Re: visudo problem in Operating System - HP-UX

visudo problem

Dags — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:41:05 GMT

Hi Masters,

Im having problem with my box(HP-UX alxapd03 B.11.23 U ia64 1919643550 unlimited-user license). I already installed sudo (sudo-1.7.2p1-ia64-11.23.depot). But when I've tried editing visudo (/usr/local/sbin/visudo) it only shows blank text. Anyone knows how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

Re: visudo problem

Kapil Jha — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:49:42 GMT

what does /etc/sudoers file shows.
and what you want to be there in it, you have to configure it as per your needs.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: visudo problem

Dags — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:53:54 GMT

Hi Kapil, thanks for your reply.

# cat /etc/sudoers
cat: Cannot open /etc/sudoers: No such file or directory

It's a newly installed box and I need users to have sudo.

Re: visudo problem

Kapil Jha — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:56:27 GMT

ok what about /usr/local/etc/sudoers

or try to do
find / -name sudoers

Are you sure it was installed properly.
Try reinstaling it.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: visudo problem

Dags — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:14:02 GMT

# cat /usr/local/etc/sudoers
# find / -name sudoers
/opt/iexpress/sudo/newconfig/opt/iexpress/sudo/etc/sudoers
/usr/local/etc/sudoers

BTW, is it OK to reinstall it directly? I mean use sam again?

thanks again

Re: visudo problem

Kapil Jha — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:21:50 GMT

You can remove it first and install again.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: visudo problem

Jim Walls — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:08:43 GMT

You appear to be using the Internet Express bundle for sudo. The binaries and, importantly, the sodoers file are installed under /opt/iexpress/sudo.

You may also seem to have a different (rogue) version installed in /usr/local/bin.

Run the following command to see which version you are accessing:

ls -l $(which sudo) $(which visudo)

If the binaries are not from /opt/iexpress/sudo/bin then you need to remove the rogue version and create the following symbolic links:

ln -s /opt/iexpress/sudo/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo
ln -s /opt/iexpress/sudo/bin/visudo /usr/bin/visudo

Re: visudo problem

Dags — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:17:40 GMT

problem solved by copying another /usr/local/etc/sudoers file from another box(B.11.23 U ia64). thanks for the assistance

Re: visudo problem

Dags — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:42:01 GMT

problem solved by copying another /usr/local/etc/sudoers file from another box(B.11.23 U ia64). thanks for the assistance