From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 00:05:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA17613 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:05:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA17608 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:05:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA02509; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:05:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:05:22 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Doug White cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange sudo behavior In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: > 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? You mean reinstalling? No, no effect. I'll report back tonight after trying this. Thanks for the tip, I'll let you know how it works. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.