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Help for PAM when account section is missing

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Todd C. Miller
2005-02-05 18:18:20 +00:00
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@@ -18,9 +18,19 @@ A) Sudo must be setuid root to do its work. You need to do something like
to have '.' in your path you should make sure it is at the end. to have '.' in your path you should make sure it is at the end.
Q) Sudo never gives me a chance to enter a password using PAM, it just Q) Sudo never gives me a chance to enter a password using PAM, it just
says 'Sorry, try again.' three times and quits. says 'Sorry, try again.' three times and exits.
A) You didn't setup PAM to work with sudo. On Linux this generally A) You didn't setup PAM to work with sudo. On Redhat Linux or Fedora
means installing sample.pam as /etc/pam.d/sudo. Core this generally means installing sample.pam as /etc/pam.d/sudo.
See the sample.pam file for hints on what to use for other Linux
systems.
Q) Sudo says 'Account expired or PAM config lacks an "account"
section for sudo, contact your system administrator' and exits
but I know my account has not expired.
A) Your PAM config lacks an "account" specification. On Linux this
usually means you are missing a line like:
account required pam_unix.so
in /etc/pam.d/sudo.
Q) Sudo is setup to log via syslog(3) but I'm not getting any log Q) Sudo is setup to log via syslog(3) but I'm not getting any log
messages. messages.