Bug 30 – Intruder Alert! You don't exist in the passwd file

Bug 30 - Intruder Alert! You don't exist in the passwd file


Summary:	Intruder Alert! You don't exist in the passwd file

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.6.0
Hardware:	HP HI-UX/MPP

Importance:	normal normal
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2001-03-14 09:14 MST by byoun
Modified:	2001-03-14 13:46 MST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description byoun 2001-03-14 09:14:07 MST

We are running sudo 1.5.3 on approx 15 of our HP-UX systems.  We just installed
HP-UX 11.00 on one of our HP9000's, and I installed sudo 1.5.3 on that box by
doing:
   configure, make, then make install
When a user (who is defined in /etc/sudoers and /etc/passwd) enters a 'sudo'
command, he receives the following:

Intruder Alert!  You don't exist in the passwd file

I receive the following on the console:
# Mar 14 09:11:27 ah-hp10 sudo:        0 : There is no passwd entry for uid 0 (T
TY=).

None of these messages make any sense... the user is in the passwd file and
there IS an entry for uid 0 (root).   Any ideas????
Thanks,
Bob Young

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2001-03-14 09:46:59 MST

Sounds like a shadow password file problem.  If you are using old binaries from
a 10.X system I wouldn't expect them to work on 11.X.  You should upgrade to a
more recent version of sudo--1.5.3 is over 4 years old!