From d0d972fa0a081eee3f04dad351023e00b251f87c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:30:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] took out stuff about NFS-mounting since it is no longer an issue --- TROUBLESHOOTING | 12 +----------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING b/TROUBLESHOOTING index 9022203f5..1c2e91832 100644 --- a/TROUBLESHOOTING +++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING @@ -30,22 +30,12 @@ A) Try running configure with the --with-getpass option. After this (see the INSTALL doc for a list of OS's that sudo knows how to get shadow password info for). -Q) Sudo says that it cannot read the sudoers file even though the - path it says is correct. -A) If the sudoers file lives on an NFS-mounted partition that partition - needs to be exported as root to the host in question unless you - have set SUDOERS_OWNER to something other than root. An easy test - is to see if "cat /path/to/sudoers" works as root. If not, then - you have the aforementioned problem. See the entry for SUDOERS_OWNER - in the OPTIONS file. - Q) Can I put the sudoers file in NIS/NIS+ or do I have to have a copy on each machine? A) There is no support for making an NIS/NIS+ map/table out of the sudoers file at this time. A good way to distribute the sudoers file is via rdist(1). It is also possible to - NFS-mount the sudoers file. However, please read the previous - TROUBLESHOOTING entry for info on this. + NFS-mount the sudoers file. Q) I don't run sendmail on my machine. Does this mean that I cannot use sudo? -- 2.40.0