=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/INSTALL,v retrieving revision 1.6.2.1 retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.6.2.1 -r1.7 --- src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/INSTALL 2002/01/18 17:20:22 1.6.2.1 +++ src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/INSTALL 2002/01/03 03:49:16 1.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Installation instructions for Sudo 1.6.5 +Installation instructions for Sudo 1.6.3 ======================================== Sudo uses a `configure' script to probe the capabilities and type @@ -68,16 +68,13 @@ --cache-file=FILE Cache test results in FILE - --config-cache, -C - Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache' - - --help, -h + --help Print the usage/help info - --no-create, -n + --no-create Do not create output files - --quiet, --silent, -q + --quiet, --silent Do not print `checking...' messages Directory and file names: @@ -196,27 +193,13 @@ command line. --with-bsdauth - Enable support for BSD authentication on BSD/OS and OpenBSD. - This option assumes --with-logincap as well. It is not - possible to mix BSD authentication with other authentication - methods (and there really should be no need to do so). Note - that only the newer BSD authentication API is supported. - If you don't have /usr/include/bsd_auth.h then you cannot - use this. + Enable support for BSD authentication on BSD/OS. This option + assumes --with-logincap as well. It is not possible to mix + BSD authentication with other authentication methods (and there + really should be no need to do so). Note that only the newer + BSD authentication API is supported. If you don't have + /usr/include/bsd_auth.h then you cannot use this. - --disable-root-mailer - By default sudo will run the mailer as root when tattling - on a user so as to prevent that user from killing the mailer. - With this option, sudo will run the mailer as the invoking - user which some people consider to be safer. - - --disable-saved-ids - Disable use of POSIX saved IDs. Normally, sudo will try to - use POSIX saved IDs if they are supported. However, some - implementations are broken. If sudo aborts with an error like: - "seteuid(0): Operation not permitted" - you probably need to disable POSIX saved ID support. - --disable-sia Disable SIA support. This is the "Security Integration Architecture" on Digital UNIX. If you disable SIA sudo will use its own @@ -600,11 +583,12 @@ the "#define HAVE_LSEARCH 1" line in config.h and add lsearch.o to the LIBOBJS line in the Makefile. - If you are using a Linux kernel older than 2.4 it is not possible - to access the sudoers file via NFS. This is due to a bug in - the Linux client-side NFS implementation that has since been - fixed. There is a workaround on the sudo ftp site, linux_nfs.patch, - if you need to NFS-mount sudoers on older Linux kernels. + It is not possible to access the sudoers file via NFS on Linux. + This is due to a bug in the Linux client-side NFS implementation. + It has been fixed in the developement kernel but, as of Aug 27, + 1999, the fixes have not made it into the mainstream kernel. + There is a workaround on the sudo ftp site, linux_nfs.patch, + if you need to NFS-mount sudoers on Linux. Mac OS X: It has been reported that for sudo to work on Mac OS X it must