[CentOS] attention: sudo update breaks nsswitch

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 18 13:40:09 UTC 2012


From: SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

>This is a bit off-topic in relation to your original message, but
> related to the sudo update.
> 
> On one of my hosts I have special allowances via sudoers in order to
> rsync while preserving permissions ... the sudo update whacked the
> lines for my backup hosts, but left the line for my wheel access in
> place.

The update did not create a .rpmnew...?
  Updating   : sudo-1.7.4p5-11.el6.x86_64                               165/447 
  warning: /etc/sudoers created as /etc/sudoers.rpmnew
It lead me to find out about the "new" sudoers.d directory (for 6.x).

JD



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