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added section on syslog

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Todd C. Miller
1996-01-07 19:26:25 +00:00
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@@ -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 on must *not* be mounted with the nosuid mount option or sudo will
not be able to work. 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 Q) When sudo asks me for my password it never accepts what I enter even
though I know I entered my password correctly. though I know I entered my password correctly.
A) Try running configure with the --with-getpass option. After this A) Try running configure with the --with-getpass option. After this