[sudo-users] LDAPS + sudo + AIX 7.1

Shawn McMahon syberghost at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 08:55:20 MDT 2013


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Todd C. Miller
<Todd.Miller at courtesan.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:03:54 -0500, ace man wrote:
>
> > I figured out my issue. It seems as though sudoers or AIX does not like
> > special characters in the TLS_KEYPW field.
> >
> > My password was like so #TssE!4v
>
> That is because '#' is the comment character so anything after the
> '#' was being ignored.


Not a good idea to use # in a password anyway, since on some platforms
that's the "erase" character when typing.


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