Sudo -- visudo give syntax error on sample sudoers?

David Brower dbrower at us.oracle.com
Thu Mar 30 16:39:18 EST 2000


I've just pulled over and installed sudo 1.6.3.  If I copy over the
sample sudoers file to /etc, and run visudo, then exit, it complains
about syntax errors:

>>> sudoers file: syntax error, line 29 <<<
>>> sudoers file: syntax error, line 53 <<<
>>> sudoers file: syntax error, line 54 <<<
>>> sudoers file: syntax error, line 55 <<<
>>> sudoers file: syntax error, line 56 <<<
>>> sudoers file: syntax error, line 107 <<<

Built with gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

any ideas?  (Is it fair to complain about the
quality of the syntax error message? :-)

thanks!

-dB



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