[vox-tech] SUDO problem...

Rusty Minden vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:45:31 -0800


not much help, but do you run the harden-environment tools I do 
on my desktop and not my laptop and the desktop asks for a 
password while the laptop does not. I use the same apt sources 
and version (testing) on both.

Rusty

On Tuesday 17 December 2002 03:36 pm, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote:
> I've got an interesting one:
>
> I had to reload one of my debian systems this weekend. I
> installed the "sudo" package, and added my user (via visudo,
> of course). Now, when I issue the command "sudo <cmd>", it no
> longer asks me for a password--it authenticates me without
> asking. Now my other debian system still asks for a password
> and "remembers" me for a couple of minutes before asking
> again. I've compared my sudo files from both my gateway
> machine (the one I just reloaded) and my other debian box and
> they are the same:
>
> doug: ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> Any suggestions as to where to look to fix this? This kinda
> worries me.
>
> PS: I'm running "testing" on my gateway and "unstable" on the
> other box.