From dc7ee760253b5ade13d89e37eff2f0f05848a5e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 19:26:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added section on syslog --- TROUBLESHOOTING | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING b/TROUBLESHOOTING index 8503b46d6..81721b5a1 100644 --- a/TROUBLESHOOTING +++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING @@ -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 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 though I know I entered my password correctly. A) Try running configure with the --with-getpass option. After this -- 2.50.1