Imported Upstream version 1.8.7

[debian/sudo] / doc / TROUBLESHOOTING

diff --git a/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING b/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING
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--- a/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING
+++ b/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ A) Make sure you have an entry in your syslog.conf file to save
    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 
+   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.
 
@@ -182,6 +182,17 @@ A) Starting with Solaris 2.6, snprintf(3) is included in the standard
        #define HAVE_VSNPRINTF 1
    and run make.
 
+Q) I built sudo on a Solaris 11 (or higher) machine but the resulting
+   binary doesn't work older Solaris versions.  Why?
+
+A) Starting with Solaris 11, asprintf(3) is included in the standard
+   C library.  To build a version of sudo on a Solaris 11 machine that
+   will run on an older Solaris release, edit config.h and comment out
+   the lines:
+       #define HAVE_ASPRINTF 1
+       #define HAVE_VASPRINTF 1
+   and run make.
+
 Q) When I run "visudo" it says "sudoers file busy, try again later."
    and doesn't do anything.
 A) Someone else is currently editing the sudoers file with visudo.
@@ -240,6 +251,18 @@ A) On systems that use a Mozilla-derived LDAP SDK there must be a
     Enter new password: <return>
     Re-enter password: <return>
 
+Q) On HP-UX, when I run command via sudo it displays information
+   about the last successful login and last authentication failure
+   for every command.  How can I fix this?
+A) This output comes from /usr/lib/security/libpam_hpsec.so.1.
+   To suppress it, add a line like the following to /etc/pam.conf:
+   sudo session required libpam_hpsec.so.1 bypass_umask bypass_last_login
+
+Q) On HP-UX, the umask setting in sudoers has no effect.
+A) If your /etc/pam.conf file has the libpam_hpsec.so.1 session module
+   enabled, you may need to a add line like the following to pam.conf:
+   sudo session required libpam_hpsec.so.1 bypass_umask
+
 Q) When I run sudo on AIX I get the following error:
     setuidx(ID_EFFECTIVE|ID_REAL|ID_SAVED, ROOT_UID): Operation not permitted.
 A) AIX's Enhanced RBAC is preventing sudo from running.  To fix
@@ -251,6 +274,15 @@ A) AIX's Enhanced RBAC is preventing sudo from running.  To fix
            innateprivs = PV_DAC_GID,PV_DAC_O,PV_DAC_R,PV_DAC_UID,PV_DAC_W,PV_DAC_X,PV_FS_CHOWN,PV_PROC_ENV,PV_PROC_PRIO,PV_PROC_RAC
            secflags = FSF_EPS
 
+Q) Sudo configures and builds without error but when I run it I get
+   a Segmentation fault.
+A) If you are on a Linux system, the first thing to try is to run
+   configure with the --disable-pie option, then "make clean" and
+   "make".  If that fixes the problem then your operating system
+   does not properly support position independent executables.
+   Please send a message to sudo@sudo.ws with system details such
+   as the Linux distro, kernel version and CPU architecture.
+
 Q) When I run configure I get the following error:
     dlopen present but libtool doesn't appear to support your platform.
 A) Libtool doesn't know how to support dynamic linking on the operating