topic Re: Sudo setup in Operating System - HP-UX

Sudo setup

Visweswara R Madhavarap — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:29:44 GMT

I have installaed the sudo package on hp-ux 11.11 Server for su access to the user 'madhavav'

# swlist -l product |grep -i sudo
sudo 1.8.1p1 Provide limited super-user priveleges to specific users

I have added the following Entries in /etc/sudoers

User_alias ADMIN = madhavav
ADMIN ALL =(ALL) ALL
Cmnd_Alias SU = /usr/bin/su

but when su - madhava and ran the following two commands

1) sudo -l
2) sudo su -

I am getting following error messages

$ sudo su -
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 24 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 24
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
$ ^C
$ sudo -l
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 24 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 24
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Please help me if need any necessary changes.

Re: Sudo setup

Bob_Vance — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:11:07 GMT

>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 24 <<<

Well, what's near line 24 ?

can you give us a

## cat /etc/sudoers

bv

Re: Sudo setup

Bob_Vance — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:22:28 GMT

uv got

User_alias

should be

User_Alias

bv

Re: Sudo setup

Wilfred Chau_1 — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:46:30 GMT

how did you edit sudoers?

if you just vi the file, try use visudo and enter the text again.

Re: Sudo setup

Bob_Vance — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:29:59 GMT

His problem is that User_Alias is case-sensitive and he had
User_alias
---------^^^

bv

Re: Sudo setup

Bill Hassell — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:36:02 GMT

Do not use vi to edit the file. The sudoers file states this warning at the top. The reason to use visudo is that it will always check what you added/changed and show the errors when you try to exit.

Re: Sudo setup

AwadheshPandey — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:05:42 GMT

please configure
Host_Alias
User_Alias
Cmnd_Alias
and
# User privilege specification
User_Alias Host_Alias = Cmnd_Alias