[LON-CAPA-dev] sudo

[Martin Siegert]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:41:45PM -0500, Scott Harrison wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> sudo is now a mandatory part of a LON-CAPA installation
> 
> You can add it to your system by:
> cd loncom/build/
> make rpmstatuspost
> http://MACHINENAME/lon-status/rpmstatus.html
> 
> You will find a link on that page
> to download and install sudo.
> http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/sudo-1.6.5p2_rh6.2-1.i386.rpm
> 
> rpm -Uvh sudo-1.6.5p2_rh6.2-1.i386.rpm 
> 
> RedHat 7.* systems normally come with sudo.
> 
> You can choose between
> http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS/sudo-1.6.5p2_rh7.1-1.i386.rpm
> or
> ftp://mirror.pa.msu.edu/linux/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i386/sudo-1.6.4-0.7x.2.i386.rpm
> 
> If you are running RedHat 7.*, you will likely want to
> update glibc, glibc-common, glibc-devel as well
> See
> ftp://mirror.pa.msu.edu/linux/redhat/linux/updates/7.1/en/os/i386/
> 
> I rolled the 6.2 rpm myself so as to avoid a security hole
> from the older RedHat "powertools" version.

The security hole is in all versions < 1.6.4. Thus the powertools rpm
is actually safe.

Martin

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