messages.
A) Make sure you have an entry in your syslog.conf file to save
the sudo messages (see the sample.syslog.conf file). The default
- log facility is local2 (changeable via configure). Don't forget
- to send a SIGHUP to your syslogd so that it re-reads its conf file.
- Also, remember that syslogd does *not* create log files, you need to
- create the file before syslogd will log to it (ie: touch /var/log/sudo).
- Note: the facility ("local2.debug") must be separated from the
- destination ("/var/adm/sudo.log" or "@loghost") by
+ log facility is authpriv (changeable via configure or in sudoers).
+ Don't forget to send a SIGHUP to your syslogd so that it re-reads
+ its conf file. Also, remember that syslogd does *not* create
+ log files, you need to create the file before syslogd will log
+ to it (ie: touch /var/log/sudo).
+ Note: the facility (e.g. "auth.debug") must be separated from the
+ destination (e.g. "/var/log/auth" or "@loghost") by
tabs, *not* spaces. This is a common error.
Q) When sudo asks me for my password it never accepts what I enter even