[Bug 627472] Re: Upstart and Sudo - Email for root

[Curtis Hovey]

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Title:
  Upstart and Sudo - Email for root

Status in “sudo” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I posted this on the ubuntu forums. I cant tell if its a upstart issue
  or a way something is implemented. If it is a upstart issue, i want to
  help yall fix it.

  
  I am getting a weird issue.

  I am running 10.04 of Ubuntu. I have Postfix mail server installed and
  set to send alerts.

  When I have the following script in the in a /etc/init/airvideo.conf
  file as described here http://wiki.birth-online.de/know-how/hardware
  /apple-iphone/airvideo-server-linux.

  
  [code]start on runlevel [2345]
  stop on shutdown
  respawn

  exec sudo -H -n -u johnnytk36 /usr/bin/java -jar /home/johnnytk36/AVS/AirVideoServerLinux.jar /home/johnnytk36/AVS/avs.properties[/code]When i boot up the Air Video server starts perfectly and i have no issues with it. What im having a issue with is that IF i have the airvideo.conf file in the etc/init/ folder like it needs to be to boot i receive a email from my Postfix server with the subject.
  [code]*** SECURITY information for Server ***[/code]& a body of [code]Server : Aug 30 18:30:30 : root :  ***
  [/code]The *** in the body is usually some random strange combo of a few characters.

  I think it has to do with permissions, i just don't know where the
  issue is. I think the email is trying to tell me that something tried
  to guess my root pass.

  
  I know this said it was for Karmic Linux and it I'm using Lucid. That might be the issue, i don't know.

  UPDATE: After spending 6 hours debugging this all i could, i cant
  figure it out. I have narrowed it down to the fact that we are using
  the sudo command while already in root. I think that triggers the
  email to be sent. It seems to be bypassing any setting i can think of
  to stop this. I have tried to edit the sudoers file to not allow email
  sent, but no matter what i did. It didn't work.

  This is what i added to the sudoers file:

  [CODE]Defaults    mail_always=off
  Defaults    mail_badpass=off
  Defaults    mail_no_user=off
  Defaults    mail_no_host=off
  Defaults    mail_no_perms=off[/CODE]Here is the auth log output:

  [CODE]Aug 31 02:05:21 Server sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
  USER=johnnytk36 ; COMMAND=/bin/bash -c /usr/bin/java
  -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar /opt/AVS/AirVideoServerLinux.jar
  /opt/AVS/avs.properties[/CODE]Could if be the fact that the sudeurs
  file is only readable by root?

  Any help is appreciated.

  I've given up for now and I'm just going to do a filter in Gmail to
  delete the email as soon as it comes in. This might be a true bug, but
  i dont care anymore. If anyone else using 10.04 sees this, let me
  know, so i know i'm not alone.

  http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/sudoers.man.html

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