sudo didn't work in a fresh install of Ubuntu 5.10 Colony 4

[billy am]

hi ... my md5 sum of sudo matches yours yet it works .... know why?

regards
billy

On 9/8/05, Alexander Botero <alex.botero at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've burned the CD twice.
> I've repeated the whole installation of Ubuntu 5.10 (Colony 4) twice. *
> *
> The installed version is 
> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.12-8-386 (buildd at rothera) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 
> (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.4-6ubuntu6)) #1 Tue Aug 30 22:41:30 BST 2005
> 
> $ cat /etc/*version*
> testing/unstable
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hello,
> I have just installed Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Colony 4<http://distrowatch.com/2877>on an empty reiserfs partition. The /swap and /tmp are shared with other 
> Linux distributions. I did md5sum-checksum on the downloaded ISO and burned 
> the CD very carefully, so there's no error there. Did eveything twice.
> 
> Booted up, logged in and noticed that:
> 
> 1) The "sudo" command failed to do anything at all. It wouldn't run the 
> requested command and NO severe error messages appeared except this 
> 
> "sudo: unable to lookup 028877116790 via gethostbyname()
> 
> I've seen that message in Hoary and any other Ubuntu version. It should 
> NOT be a big deal or? 
> My /etc/hosts has this line "127.0.0.01 <http://127.0.0.01> localhost 
> 028877116790".
> 
> Anyway,
> $ sudo -s -H <----------------- DID NOTHING 
> $ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list <----------- DID NOTHING
> 
> And the unfortunate situation is that "su - root" doesn't work either. By 
> default, the root login is obviously disabled in Ubuntu.
> $ su - root <-------------- UNABLE TO DO 
> $ su -c <-------------- UNABLE TO DO
> 
> None of these work either 
> $ /usr/bin/gksudo ls 
> $ /usr/bin/gnome-sudo ls 
> $ /usr/bin/sudoedit ls 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Analyze it:
> 
> I have Ubuntu Hoary 4.05 on the neighbouring partition, so I mounted the 
> Colony 4 disk from there and enabled the Colony's root password 
> (/etc/shadow). Re-booted into Colony4 and the root passwd and "su -c" were 
> now functional.
> 
> The installed (bad, corrupt) sudo command in Ubuntu 5.10 Colony4 is:
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 93076 2005-07-07 11:44 /usr/bin/sudo 
> 
> $ md5sum /usr/bin/sudo
> 73b36e871e2d454ef0212aac8798eacb
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The solution is: (update sudo package !!)
> 
> I downloaded a new, updated sudo via 
> http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_2539.html
> 
> It's actually this file.
> http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/dist/sudo-1.6.8p9.tar.gz
> 
> And 
> $ su -c "apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential" 
> 
> $ ./configure && make 
> 
> $ su -c "mv sudo /usr/bin"
> $ su -c "chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo"
> $ su -c "chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo"
> 
> (some guides say: chmod 4111 /usr/bin/sudo, but I think 4755 is more 
> correct)
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 105595 2005-09-07 19:32 /usr/bin/sudo
> 
> $ md5sum /usr/bin/sudo
> c2f1fceb4aea929dd98a1f026ee63289
> 
> AND NOW SUDO ROCKS! IT WORKS.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 2) SUDO related bug 
> "gksudo /usr/bin/update-manager"
> does not start when I click on the red alert-icon.
> 
> It runs from commandline.
> Fails to run from icon in both Ubuntu 5.04 and 5.10
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 3) Minor bug in "smeg" menu editor 0.75
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install smeg 
> $ smeg 
> It freezes if you select the top-most item "Applications".
> and press the up-down arrows (on the right side). A meaningsless act that 
> makes smeg's Python code to loops forever.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 4) "Terminal server" applet in "Add to panel" is missing an (icon) image
> See http://www.futuredesktop.org/tmp/ubuntu_colony4_a.jpg
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 5) I have several disk drive-icons on the desktop. Very good. 
> So I select the "/sda1" icon and press the right-mouse-button, and 
> "Unmount volume" from the menu, but it says "Unable to unmount the selected 
> device.
> Umount: only root can unmount /dev/sda1 from /media/sda1"
> 
> "Disk Mounter" applet gives the same error.
> 
> It should do it as superuser (sudo) and ask a password.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
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