[sudo-users] FW: sudoers anomaly

[Wood, Mike]

It parses OK.

Mike Wood
UNIX System Administrator
Kinetic Concepts Inc.
5751 NW Parkway
San Antonio, TX, 78249
 
E-mail:  mike.wood at kci1.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com [mailto:sudo-users-
> bounces at courtesan.com] On Behalf Of Carville, Stephen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:14 PM
> To: sudo-users at sudo.ws
> Subject: Re: [sudo-users] FW: sudoers anomaly
> 
> Todd C. Miller [Todd.Miller at courtesan.com] opines:
> 
> > In message
> > <B2E59DACDD5BAE4E9610EA5C7BF48716024523D6 at txsan01exc02.kci.com>
> > 	so spake "Wood, Mike" (Mike.Wood):
> >
> > > I have a similar problem (Sudo version 1.6.9p13).
> > > -
> > > A user complained that he couldn't execute a certain command.
Sudo
> -
> > l
> > > shows he should be able to.  Specifically from sudo -l:
> > > (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/*/start_dsmc,
> > > /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, he gets "lectured".
> > >
> > > Now if I delete a Host_Alias that it COMPLETELY UNRELATED, it then
> > works
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > Additionally, if I su - to the account from root, it works fine
> > (whether
> > > I edit Host_aliases or not.
> > >
> > > I'm completely baffled.
> >
> > I'd love to know whether sudo 1.7.0rc2 exhibits the same behavior.
> > ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/beta/sudo-1.7.0rc2.tar.gz
> 
> Out of curiosity, has anyone tried the -s flag for visudo on the
sudoers
> file?
> 
> $ visudo -cs -f /etc/sudoers
> 
> This can sometimes catch subtle problems.
> 
> --
> Stephen Carville <scarville at landam.com>
> Systems Engineer
> Land America
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