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[Howard Owen]

You might try 'su' before you do the installation.

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 09:54, nishant sharma wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am having no experience in using SUDO, complete new
> at it.
> I want to use SUDO for my software.
> 
> I explain my problem in points :
> 1. The main problem is that I am not having "root"
> permissions on my UNIX system.
> 
> 2. I installed complete SUDO on my UNIX machine using
> various OPTIONS while "configuring " it,giving
> --prefix=$HOME/install_sudo,--exec-prefix=$HOME/install_sudo,--sysconfdir=$HOME/config,--with-logging=file,--with-logfac=user,--with-logpath=$HOME/logs,--with-timedir=$HOME/timedir.
> 
> 3. Then run "make", then run "make install".
> 
> 4. Now, when I try to run any "sudo" command,it is
> saying "Sorry, sudo must be setuid root.". I tried all
> options in given in "TROUBLESHOOTING", but nothing
> happened.
> 
> 5. When I tries to modify sudoer file, it is also
> giving error saying "visudo: Unable to set (uid, gid)
> of /export/home/nish/config/sudoers.tmp to (0, 0): Not
> owner".
> 
> Please tell me that is it necesary to have "root"
> permissions for installing SUDO and modifying "sudoer"
> file.
> 
> Please help me out.
> 
> Rgds,
> Nishant
> 
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