Sudo

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Download Source: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/sudo-1.8.8.tar.gz

Introduction to Sudo

Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments.

Project Homepage: http://www.sudo.ws/

Dependencies

Recomended

Linux-PAM

Configuration Information

--without-pam builds with out pam support.

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-noargs-shell --with-ignore-dot --with-all-insults \
    --enable-shell-sets-home &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
if [ -f /etc/pam.d/su ]; then
  sed "s/su$/&do/" /etc/pam.d/su > /etc/pam.d/sudo
fi

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-noargs-shell --with-ignore-dot --with-all-insults \
    --enable-shell-sets-home &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
if [ -f /etc/pam.d/su ]; then
  sed "s/su$/&do/" /etc/pam.d/su > /etc/pam.d/sudo
fi

N32

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-noargs-shell --with-ignore-dot --with-all-insults \
    --enable-shell-sets-home &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
if [ -f /etc/pam.d/su ]; then
  sed "s/su$/&do/" /etc/pam.d/su > /etc/pam.d/sudo
fi

64Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
    --enable-noargs-shell --with-ignore-dot --with-all-insults \
    --enable-shell-sets-home &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
if [ -f /etc/pam.d/su ]; then
  sed "s/su$/&do/" /etc/pam.d/su > /etc/pam.d/sudo
fi

Content

Installed Programs: sudo, sudoedit, and visudo
Installed Libraries: sudo_noexec.so
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

sudo executes a command as another user as permitted by the /etc/sudoers configuration file.
sudoedit is a hard link to sudo that implies the -e option to invoke an editor as another user.
visudo allows for safer editing of the sudoers file.
sudo_noexec.so enables support for the "noexec" functionality which prevents a dynamically-linked program being run by sudo from executing another program (think shell escapes).