There was a missing file in the 1.6.4b2 tarball. Additionally, some versions of tar had trouble unpacking the archive. I've updated the 1.6.4b2 tarball to fix this: ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/beta/sudo-1.6.4b2.tar.gz http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/sudo-1.6.4b2.tar.gz - todd