diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING b/TROUBLESHOOTING index 8503b46d6..81721b5a1 100644 --- a/TROUBLESHOOTING +++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING @@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ A) Sudo must be setuid root to do its work. You need to do something like on must *not* be mounted with the nosuid mount option or sudo will not be able to work. +Q) Sudo is setup to log via syslog(3) but I'm not getting any log + messages. +A) Make sure you have an entry in your syslog.conf file to save + the sudo messages. The default log facility is local2 + (configurable in options.h) so you would want something like: + local2.debug /var/adm/sudo.log + or + local2.debug @loghost + depending whether you want to forward the messages to another + host or keep them locally. + Q) When sudo asks me for my password it never accepts what I enter even though I know I entered my password correctly. A) Try running configure with the --with-getpass option. After this