[CentOS] strange su behavior
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 19:23:09 UTC 2010
>>>>>> Do you have any sudo call from your /etc or /etc/skel bashrc or profile...?
>>>>> Yes, I do have in /etc/bashrc:
>>>>> sudo -l
>>>> Unless you already understood:
>>>> su - "make the shell a login shell"
>>>> so sudo -l in bashrc is executed, which asks for the user's password
>>> Understood, who is asking - not understood why "sudo -l" is asking for
>>> the password and why just hitting the enter key works
>> sudo -l
>> lists the commands that you are allowed to run with sudo
> That is clear to me, but why does this command request the password?
Do you have rootpw/runaspw/targetpw set in /etc/sudoers?
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