Bug 112233 - sudo quits after asking for the password, returning error code 255
Summary: sudo quits after asking for the password, returning error code 255
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: sudo
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-12-16 15:25 UTC by Ralf Ertzinger
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:00 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 1.6.7p5-9
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2003-12-18 09:30:24 UTC
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Description Ralf Ertzinger 2003-12-16 15:25:15 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When running any sudo command, sudo just quits after asking for the
password. Error code 255 is returned, no other error messages (console
or logfiles).
sudo-1.6.7p5-5 worked fine, the sudo config remained unchanged.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sudo-1.6.7p5-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try running any allowed command via sudo
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  sudo just drops back to the shell

Expected Results:  Execution of command

Additional info:

This might be related to the new selinux features in sudo, so this may
be a bug in libselinux, too.

Working config:
sudo-1.6.7p5-5, libselinux 1.4-1

Not working:
sudo-1.6.7p5-6, libselinux-1.4-2
Comment 1 Kaj J. Niemi 2003-12-16 16:34:09 UTC 
Sudo actually complains it's not root (although /usr/bin/sudo is owned
by 0:0 and is suid)

Problem continues in sudo-1.6.7p5-7.
Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2003-12-16 19:18:04 UTC 
This release also does not work for me :(
Comment 3 Enrico Scholz 2003-12-17 04:27:06 UTC 
ltrace shows

| open(NULL, 2, 00)                                             = -1

which causes sudo to fail. This happens in the new

| +       fd = open(ttyn,O_RDWR);                                    
                                  

where 'ttyn' gets initialized in the  'if( is_selinux_enabled() )'
case only.
Comment 4 Aleksey Nogin 2003-12-17 10:34:48 UTC 
Seeing this too - sudo-1.6.7p5-7, libselinux-1.4-3 on x86_64 (AMD Opteron)
Comment 5 Aleksey Nogin 2003-12-18 09:30:24 UTC 
WFM with sudo-1.6.7p5-9
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