Installing Sudo On Hp-ux - Free Linux Tutorials

Installing sudo on HP-UX

1. check your OS and server architecture to know which package to download. Use the uname command. If it’s an PA-RISC 2.0 architecture, you will normally see something like this: # uname -an HP-UX darwin B.11.11 U 9000/800 1234567 unlimited-user license

else if it’s an Itanium 2 # uname -an HP-UX darwin B.11.31 U ia64 0987654321 unlimited-user license

From here you can see, the following HP-UX operating system name darwin hostname/system name B.11.11 operating system release identifier U operating system version identifier 9000/800 machine and model numbers 1234567 machine identification number unlimited-user operating system license level

2. Go to my favorite Porting and Archiving Centre for HP-UX based in UK and search the needed packages. URL will be http://hpux.connect.org.uk

3. Search for package name or description 4. For this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to install it on a Itanium. Search for “sudo” and download the necessary package depending on your OS version and architecture.If you will point your mouse on the HTTP or FTP link, it will tell you to “Install gettext,libiconv,zlib first”meaning those are the dependencies required. 5. Download the following packages

gettext-0.18.1.1-ia64-11.23.depot.gz libiconv-1.14-ia64-11.23.depot.gz sudo-1.8.4p2-ia64-11.23.depot.gz zlib-1.2.6-ia64-11.23.depot.gz

6. Move it to a specified folder if you want, then uncompress it #gunzip *.gz 7. Install the package as follow: swinstall -s /etc/sudo-1.8.4p1-hppa-11.23.depot \* swinstall -s /home/darwin/libiconv-1.14-ia64-11.23.depot \* swinstall -s /home/darwin/gettext-0.18.1.1-ia64-11.23.depot \* swinstall -s /home/darwin/zlib-1.2.6-ia64-11.23.depot \* swinstall -s /home/darwin/sudo-1.8.4p2-ia64-11.23.depot \*

Configuring sudo

1. Normally installation path will be on /usr/local as in files will be in /usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/visudo /usr/local/etc/sudoers

2. Add user or group in the sudoers using visudo example

darwin ALL=(ALL) ALL %group ALL=(ALL) ALL

3.To test if sudo works already, login as normal user and tried this $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/sudoers -r–r—– 1 root root 142 Apr 13 12:47 /usr/local/etc/sudoers $ more /usr/local/etc/sudoers /usr/local/etc/sudoers: Permission denied $ sudo more /usr/local/etc/sudoers Password: darwin ALL=(ALL) AL %system ALL=(ALL) ALL

From here can see, cannot display the file sudoers because the file permission is for root only. When use “sudo”, it is like temporarily switching a normal user to root to see or execute commands

Tip: As default installation, sudo files will be on /usr/local, so to make your life easier, add it in your path export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

or to make it permanent, put it in your profile path /home/darwin/.profile

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