Sudo setup

[Visweswara R Madhavarap]

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.

[Bob_Vance]

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


Well, what's near line 24 ?

can you give us a

## cat /etc/sudoers


bv

[Bob_Vance]

uv got

User_alias

should be

User_Alias

bv

[Wilfred Chau_1]

how did you edit sudoers?

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

[Bob_Vance]

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


bv

[Bill Hassell]

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.

[AwadheshPandey]

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