FW: Question using netgroup and sudo on NCR platform

[Navin Jain]

Hi All,

A couple of days back I posted the question of using the sudo on NCR
platform.
I did not got much reply.

I have carried mor testing with sudo v1.6.3p5 and I found the same problem
with
this new version.

My sudoers file has one line:

+sysadmin	ALL=(ALL) ALL

where a new user (say) jainn belongs to the netgroup sysadmin.
Every thing works on the DEC and HP-UX Unix but not on NCR platform.

I have tried to compile with YYDEBUG option and ran sudo with YYDEBUG
level set to 9.

It gives a lot of messages, which indicates that it understand +sysadmin
as a NETGROUP, but still refuses to work :-(

I am not a good C programmer ;-)
Is this a right list to ask such questions?

Can any sudo developer willing to help me. Any pointers / suggestions are
welcome.

Please help.
--
Navin Jain


-----Original Message-----
From: Navin Jain 
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 7:00 PM
To: 'sudo-users at courtesan.com'
Subject: Question using netgroup and sudo on NCR platform


Hi All,
 
We are using the sudo version 1.5.9p2 on three platforms via HP-UX 11.0, DEC
OSF1 4.0D and NCR Unix 3.0.2.
Recently we implemented the NIS on the NCR machines. All is working ok with
in NIS, except that in /etc/sudoers
does not recognise any command permission for netgroup.
 
I will try to explain it by examples:
 
Let us assume that a user jainn belongs to a netgroup sysadmin.
A line in /etc/sudoers
+sysadmin    ALL=(ALL) ALL
 
will give permission for all commands to the user jainn on HP-UX and DEC
servers but not NCR Unix.
 
If we change the sudoers to:
 
User_Alias    SYSUSER=jainn
 
SYSUSER    ALL=(ALL) ALL
 
every thing works fine on all three platform.
 
Also, I have noticed that even %group is not working on the NCR platform.
 
Has any one seem similar problem with NCR Unix.
 
Any pointers or suggestion are much appreciated.
 
Thanks in Advance,
--
Navin Jain
Snr Unix Systems Admin
National Technical Services - Franklins Ltd
Ph. (02) 9722-1370               Fax: 02 9722 1014
mailto:jainN at franklins.com.au