Problems with Sudo

[Adam McGreggor]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 23:38 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
>> I only allow a particular user to ssh to my home machine, lets call him
>> remoteuser.  Once I log in as remoteuser, I switch to localuser.  Once
>> I'm the localuser, I can't run sudo.  If I log into the console as
>> "localuser" I can use sudo just fine.

How are you switching? And why?

>> Is there an option that needs to be adjusted in /etc/sudoers that will
>> allow me to switch users?
>
> What I mean by I can't run sudo when I ssh in as the remote user and
> switch to the local user, is that sudo asks me for my password, but
> keeps saying authentication failure, even thou when logged in via the
> console, or if I ssh directly in as local user, I can authenticate via
> sudo without problems.

It's probably a case that you're still the remote user; what's the
output of who(1), or last(1)?

Is the remote user in any of the groups that's allowed to use sudo
(visudo(8)'s your friend).

I still don't get why you don't just connect as 'localuser'