[sudo-users] Problem with Red Hat v.3 and "Memory fault" error

Mike Watz elan_mbx2 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 14 22:15:50 EDT 2007


--- "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com> wrote:

> In message <704385.67225.qm at web52009.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> 	so spake Mike Watz (elan_mbx2):
> 
> > So I've built 1.6.9 on a Red Hat v.3 box.  Now when I execute sudo for the
> > first time I get a "Memory fault" message.  After the fault I run sudo
> again
> > and everything works fine.  So after I receive my token it apparently
> doesn't
> > have a problem... but before I have a token it causes a "Memory fault"...
> > 
> > None of the other environments I've built for (RHEL4, RHEL5, Sol 8-10, HPUX
> > 11i) have had this issue...
> 
> Chances are you are hitting a PAM bug in RHEL3.  A similar issue
> was found with Solaris prior to Solaris 8 so it is possible that
> the bug is similar.  Please try the following diff.  If that doesn't
> work, running configure with the --without-pam option should give
> you a working sudo.
> 
>  - todd
> 
> Index: auth/pam.c
> diff -u auth/pam.c:1.43.2.4 auth/pam.c:1.43.2.5
> --- auth/pam.c:1.43.2.4	Sun Jul 22 08:14:53 2007
> +++ auth/pam.c	Thu Sep 13 18:42:52 2007
> @@ -190,9 +190,11 @@
>      /*
>       * Set PAM_USER to the user we are changing *to* and
>       * set PAM_RUSER to the user we are coming *from*.
> +     * We set PAM_RHOST to avoid a bug in Solaris 7 and below.
>       */
>      (void) pam_set_item(pamh, PAM_USER, pw->pw_name);
>      (void) pam_set_item(pamh, PAM_RUSER, user_name);
> +    (void) pam_set_item(pamh, PAM_RHOST, user_host);
>  
>      /*
>       * Set credentials (may include resource limits, device ownership, etc).

Thanks for the quick replay.  No joy, however.  I made the code change and then
experienced sudo simply hanging.  I couldn't break out, either.  So I killed my
ssh session.  The built sudo *did* work after I'd received a token, however.

I also tried building only with the --with-ldap option (left out --with-pam)
and I still receive the "Memory fault" without pam support built...

-Mike-



       
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