Distributing the SUDOERS file

Wolfs, Lucien l.l.g.m.wolfs at kpn.com
Tue Apr 25 10:25:48 EDT 2000


Hi,

It appears that distributing TO a HP server does not result in 
a synced sudoers file. I dont think this is a sudo problem, but a
problem with rdist on HP. 

Anybody ...??


Thanks,

L.L.G.M. Wolfs




> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van:	Todd C. Miller [SMTP:Todd.Miller at courtesan.com]
> Verzonden:	dinsdag 25 april 2000 14:59
> Aan:	Wolfs, Lucien
> CC:	sudo-users at courtesan.com
> Onderwerp:	Re: Distributing the SUDOERS file 
> 
> In message <09C126E27F3ED211961600A0C9D61279748D3D at NC9V0>
> 	so spake "Wolfs, Lucien" (l.l.g.m.wolfs):
> 
> > I'm having som troubles distributing the SUDOERS file.. Well, the
> > distributing is no
> > problem, but when I, after distributing the sudoers file, start visudo
> to
> > check if
> > all the modifications have been made, I see the file prior to the
> > modifications.
> > 
> > VI says that I'm editting /etc/sudoers.tmp. I distributed the
> /etc/sudoers
> > (no .tmp).
> > 
> > Can anybody tell me how I can  distribute the file so the changes will
> be
> > activated ?
> > 
> > (The example from the courtesan site using rdist doesn't work for me
> (see
> > above) ).
> 
> /etc/sudoers.tmp is just a temporary copy of /etc/sudoers that
> visudo makes.  Are you *sure* that sudoers is getting idstributed
> properly?  It sure doesn't sound like it.  One thing to do is to
> checksum sudoers on both the client and the server with the sum ,
> cksum, or md5 command (depending on which you have).
> 
>  - todd




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