=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/TROUBLESHOOTING,v retrieving revision 1.7 retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.7 -r1.8 --- src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/TROUBLESHOOTING 2004/09/28 15:10:50 1.7 +++ src/usr.bin/sudo/Attic/TROUBLESHOOTING 2005/02/05 23:31:52 1.8 @@ -25,9 +25,19 @@ option and rebuild sudo. Q) Sudo never gives me a chance to enter a password using PAM, it just - says 'Sorry, try again.' three times and quits. -A) You didn't setup PAM to work with sudo. On Linux this generally - means installing sample.pam as /etc/pam.d/sudo. + says 'Sorry, try again.' three times and exits. +A) You didn't setup PAM to work with sudo. On Redhat Linux or Fedora + Core this generally means installing sample.pam as /etc/pam.d/sudo. + See the sample.pam file for hints on what to use for other Linux + systems. + +Q) Sudo says 'Account expired or PAM config lacks an "account" + section for sudo, contact your system administrator' and exits + but I know my account has not expired. +A) Your PAM config lacks an "account" specification. On Linux this + usually means you are missing a line like: + account required pam_unix.so + in /etc/pam.d/sudo. Q) Sudo is setup to log via syslog(3) but I'm not getting any log messages.