Using sudo with relocatable hostnames

mlh mlh at zip.com.au
Fri Dec 6 20:40:16 EST 2002


Wagner, Brad wrote:
> Is it possible to configure sudo to use relocateable hostnames?  In our 
> HP-UX environment we have many clusters of machines where we would like 
> the permissions to follow the package without having to edit the sudoers 
> file each time it fails over.  Is this possible to configure by build or 
> configuration?

You can just use ALL for the hostname.  That's what
I did when I managed hp-ux clusters.

Doesn't hurt, as long as you don't blindly copy sudoers
files to other machines.

Matt





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