[1726] in athena10
Re: sudo's lecture_file for "You're in a chroot!"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Mon Mar 16 17:27:50 2009
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:26:50 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>
CC: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>,
William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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Xavid wrote:
>
> On 2009/03/16, at 16:53, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>
>> The documentation is not clear, but from reading the code it looks
>> like sudo checks whether it's the first time you've run sudo on that
>> machine ... in fact, because of the chroots, you should get warned
>> the first time you run it in each session. Unfortunately, I don't
>> have time to test this right now.
>
> I believe sudo decides whether to lecture based on whether you appear
> in /var/run/sudo/, which would mean you'd get lectured once per login
> in a cluster under our current setup.
>
> ~Xavid
Are you sure? I would have guessed it was based on the presence of
~/.sudo_as_admin_successful. Why else have the file?
- Evan
