RE: [gentoo-user] sudo requires password twice

[Daevid Vincent]

Can someone paste/send me their (stock) "/etc/pam.d/sudo" file?

I don't do anything fancy and haven't purposefully edited this file, so I
just want whatever the standard (current) Gentoo version is. This double
prompting is very frustrating...

DÆVID  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:bss03@××××××××××.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:46 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo requires password twice
>
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:36, "Daevid Vincent"
> <daevid@××××××.com>
> wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] sudo requires password twice':
> > I've not figured this out yet, so reposting in case someone has any
> > ideas...
>
> Hrm, I either never got the original (not surprising) of I was just
> skimming my mail to quickly and missed your question (even less
> surprising).
>
> > auth       required     /lib/security/pam_stack.so
> service=system-auth
>
> This line...
>
> > auth            include         system-auth
>
> and this one are redundant.  They both run through the
> system-auth chain as
> part of authentication.  In effect you are telling PAM that any sudo
> authentication needs to do system authentication twice w/ whatever
> pam_nologin does in between.
>
> You'll want to remove one or the other, after investigating
> any subtle
> differences between the two that I'm unaware of, which may or may not
> exist.  (I haven't messed with PAM in months.)


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