From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Overseers List <overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: sudo again
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874s4fepvo.fsf@creche.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me> (raw)
Chris pointed out to me that I installed sudo but didn't test it, and
it didn't work. I looked into it. It fails because none of us have
passwords on sourceware. This confuses PAM.
Fine. I looked into making it use our kerberos passwords, but we
don't have the krb4 PAM module installed (and don't we use krb5
anyway?). So I made it `promiscuous'. This means that if you are
listed in the sudoers file you won't need to use a password to use
sudo.
Maybe this is lame and dangerous (?). Another choice would be to give
all the sudoers a real password. That's an easy change to make: just
revert my change in /etc/pam.d/sudo and tell the list (or ask me to do
it).
Tom
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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Overseers List <overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: sudo again
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874s4fepvo.fsf@creche.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me> (raw)
Message-ID: <20000820113500.rGWstKJyqaa36jYr1DeP-Xg_QXMJFqZtr3-ovnQEyIk@z> (raw)
Chris pointed out to me that I installed sudo but didn't test it, and
it didn't work. I looked into it. It fails because none of us have
passwords on sourceware. This confuses PAM.
Fine. I looked into making it use our kerberos passwords, but we
don't have the krb4 PAM module installed (and don't we use krb5
anyway?). So I made it `promiscuous'. This means that if you are
listed in the sudoers file you won't need to use a password to use
sudo.
Maybe this is lame and dangerous (?). Another choice would be to give
all the sudoers a real password. That's an easy change to make: just
revert my change in /etc/pam.d/sudo and tell the list (or ask me to do
it).
Tom
next reply other threads:[~2000-12-30 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-30 6:08 Tom Tromey [this message]
2000-08-20 11:35 ` Tom Tromey
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Andrew Cagney
2000-08-24 0:01 ` Andrew Cagney
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