Bug 264

Summary:	sudo(8) gives a PAM warning
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aaron Malone <aaron>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	agenkin-gentoo-bugzilla, ykoehler
Priority:	Normal
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Aaron Malone 2002-01-21 17:51:57 UTC

On a fresh RC6-r14 install (plus a few ports) sudo(8) installed from
app-admin/sudo gives the following warning upon execution:

sudo: pam_setcred: Permission denied

The sudo'ed command appears to execute as normal.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-01-30 13:14:46 UTC

It is most likely because our PAM does not support credentials yet.  Upgrading
PAM or applying some Red Hat patches should fix it.

Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-01 12:58:02 UTC

*** Bug 439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Brent Cook 2002-02-26 10:39:19 UTC

According to the sudo homepage, http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/current.html, "In Linux-PAM 
0.75, pam_setcred() will return PAM_PERM_DENIED even if the setcred function of the module 
succeeds when pam_authenticate() has not been called." 
 
Sudo 1.6.5p2 works around the problem.

Comment 4 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-03-06 12:51:44 UTC

Thanks for the info, Brent.  I'm adding the new sudo to cvs right now.