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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:55:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: strange sudo behavior
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970128235356.24983D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970119052124.3136A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>

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On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:

> 	for a while I used sudo 1.4 on 2.1.5 without problems; however, at
> some point it began behaving strangely.  When I run it, I get the little
> admonition it gives (I *hate* that) and then a password prompt and then
> the shell prompt again.  That is, it never reads a password from me;  it
> terminates immediately.  No message is sent to root nor do any messages 
> appear on the console.  I have tried reinstalling both from ports and 
> from packages, to no avail.  Any guesses?

Your timestamp file may be corrupt; try running 'sudo -k' to wipe it out.  

The port didn't appear to do anything to it, though?  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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