Root sudo? (was Re: Cron Job Failure)

[Allen Chen]

Mike Burger wrote:

>On Tue, April 26, 2005 12:50 pm, Allen Chen said:
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>>Hi, all
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>>I got another problem with RedHat 9.  The sudo doesn't work any more
>>with root. It hangs. But it still works with other users.
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>>I don't if anybody has the same issue or not.
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>>Allen.
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>First, it's poor form to snarf another topic/thread, and start up a new
>question that's unrelated to the previous.
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>Having said that, as I'm no longer running RHL9, I can't answer on that
>front...however, I've never run into this.
>
>Realizing, up front, that this doesn't answer your question, I do have
>ask...why would you bother using sudo as root?  The whole point of sudo is
>to be able to run commands as root...if you're already root, why would you
>need to use sudo?
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I'm not using sudo with root. The problem is that the php script forks a 
process using sudo.
Such as the php script:
<?

> exec("sudo /usr/local/bin/setpassword $uid $pass");

?>

Thanks any way.

Allen.