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wrm

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Registered: 2005-06-09

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[solved] sudo and yaourt problems after recent updates

After recent updates (past week) yaourt started giving me problems. When using yaourt it prompts me for sudo password but it does not seem to use my sudo configuration.

I get this:

[sudo] password for root: 
[sudo] password for root: 
Password: 
su: Authentication failure
Password: 

When entering mine or root's password I just get prompt again. The last password is for su, which when I enter root's works.

It seems sudo is not using /etc/sudoers configuration either, as I have things like insults enabled and it used to work previously.

Any reason for this?

sudo works fine otherwise.

Last edited by wrm (2014-03-29 23:12:26)

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loafer

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Re: [solved] sudo and yaourt problems after recent updates

Make sure you don't have e.g. any aliases which could be confusing matters.  Please post your /etc/sudoers file.

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2ManyDogs

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Re: [solved] sudo and yaourt problems after recent updates

Looks like this: https://github.com/archlinuxfr/yaourt/issues/5
And this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=178776

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2014-03-24 21:33:40)

jasonwryan

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Re: [solved] sudo and yaourt problems after recent updates

Moving to AUR Issues...

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wrm

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From: Europe

Registered: 2005-06-09

Posts: 19

Re: [solved] sudo and yaourt problems after recent updates

adding SUDONOVERIF=1 (note: this is not a typo and it should not have "Y" at the end) to /etc/yaourtrc finally solved my problem regarding this.

Thanks for links 2ManyDogs.

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