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Carlo
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 Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 7:36 pm Post subject: unusual sudo problem |
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Hi!
I wanted to enable shutdown as user, but ran into a more general problem. I can su, but not sudo as wheel user. I checked /etc/pam.d/sudo | Quote: | | auth required pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok |
, changed in the sudoers file | Quote: | | %wheel ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot |
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| Quote: | | wheeluser ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot |
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but nothing helped. If I'll try to sudo, I'm asked to enter the password, but the password isn't accepted.
In var/log/auth.log I just found lines like this: | Quote: | Jan 3 03:43:47 myHost PAM_pwdb[31390]: authentication failure; wheeluser(uid=0) -> wheeluser for sudo service
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I have no idea, why the authentication fails. Could anyone help or give me a hint?
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vers_iq
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 3:16 am Post subject: Re: unusual sudo problem |
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| Quote: | | wheeluser ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot |
indicates that a user wheeluser will be able to run /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot using sudo without the need to enter password,
But if u want to make a user in wheel group to do the same, you should keep the line as | Quote: | | %wheel ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot |
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Carlo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for reply vers_iq. I changed %wheel to wheeluser just for testing.
Don't know why, don't know how, but it works now, though I changed nothing. 
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