[sudo-users] sudo messages to root tty

[Michael F Lense]

I am running HP-UX 11.31 and using ixpress sudo to allow users to run some commands....
The issue is the many messages it puts out to the root tty throughout the day....
Is there a way to stop these messages from displaying:
Jul 17 18:25:14 tmoa1db01 sudo: sysadmin : /var/adm owned by uid 4, should be uid 0 ; TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/osg1/home/sysadmin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/su - root

I am writing the sudo outputs log to /var/log/sudolog, so my only guess for this message is that the sulog is written to /var/adm/sulog ???

I've checked all of my other HP-UX servers and all of them have the /var/adm ownership at adm:adm, just like this server, so I am not sure
why it is complaining about this here....

=>ls -al /var
drwxr-xr-x  20 adm        adm           8192 Jul 17 18:20 adm

Can anyone help in resolving this issue ??

The sudo version is:

=>sudo -V
Sudo version 1.7.4p6

Configure args: --prefix=/opt/iexpress/sudo --enable-log-host --with-pam --with-fqdn --with-timedir=/var/adm --with-sudoers-mode=440 --with-sudoers-uid=2 --with-sudoers-gid=2 --sysconfdir=/opt/iexpress/sudo/etc --with-ldap=/opt/iexpress/openldap --with-libpath=/usr/local/lib
Sudoers path: /opt/iexpress/sudo/etc/sudoers
nsswitch path: /etc/nsswitch.conf
ldap.conf path: /etc/ldap.conf
ldap.secret path: /etc/ldap.secret
Authentication methods: 'pam'
Syslog facility if syslog is being used for logging: authpriv
Syslog priority to use when user authenticates successfully: notice
Syslog priority to use when user authenticates unsuccessfully: alert
Send mail if the user is not in sudoers
Use a separate timestamp for each user/tty combo
Lecture user the first time they run sudo
Require users to authenticate by default
Root may run sudo
Log the hostname in the (non-syslog) log file
Allow some information gathering to give useful error messages
Require fully-qualified hostnames in the sudoers file
Set the LOGNAME and USER environment variables
Length at which to wrap log file lines (0 for no wrap): 80
Authentication timestamp timeout: 5.0 minutes
Password prompt timeout: 5.0 minutes
Number of tries to enter a password: 3
Umask to use or 0777 to use user's: 022
Path to mail program: /usr/sbin/sendmail
Flags for mail program: -t
Address to send mail to: root
Subject line for mail messages: *** SECURITY information for %h ***
Incorrect password message: Sorry, try again.
Path to authentication timestamp dir: /var/adm
Default password prompt: Password:
Default user to run commands as: root
Path to the editor for use by visudo: /usr/bin/vi
When to require a password for 'list' pseudocommand: any
When to require a password for 'verify' pseudocommand: all
File containing dummy exec functions: /opt/iexpress/sudo/libexec/sudo_noexec.so
File descriptors >= 3 will be closed before executing a command
Reset the environment to a default set of variables
Environment variables to check for sanity:
        TERM
        LINGUAS
        LC_*
        LANGUAGE
        LANG
        COLORTERM
Environment variables to remove:
        RUBYOPT
        RUBYLIB
        PYTHONUSERBASE
        PYTHONINSPECT
        PYTHONPATH
        PYTHONHOME
        TMPPREFIX
        ZDOTDIR
        READNULLCMD
        NULLCMD
        FPATH
        PERL5DB
        PERL5OPT
        PERL5LIB
        PERLLIB
        PERLIO_DEBUG
        JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS
        SHELLOPTS
        GLOBIGNORE
        PS4
        BASH_ENV
        ENV
        TERMCAP
        TERMPATH
        TERMINFO_DIRS
        TERMINFO
        SHLIB_PATH
        _RLD*
        LD_*
        PATH_LOCALE
        NLSPATH
        HOSTALIASES
        RES_OPTIONS
        LOCALDOMAIN
        CDPATH
        IFS
Environment variables to preserve:
        XAUTHORIZATION
        XAUTHORITY
        TZ
        PS2
        PS1
        PATH
        LS_COLORS
        KRB5CCNAME
        HOSTNAME
        DISPLAY
        COLORS
Locale to use while parsing sudoers: C
Local IP address and netmask pairs:
        10.195.32.7 / 255.255.255.224
        192.168.172.21 / 255.255.255.0
        155.90.120.7 / 255.255.255.224
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