From: Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>
To: Tanneeru Muralidhar Babu-A19589 <muralidharbabu@motorola.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables execution with sudo fails
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:19:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223299190.4745.316.camel@grateful.d.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <548BC174642DC44AB25D749C28840FD308C72D7F@ZMY16EXM66.ds.mot.com>
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On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:56 +0800, Tanneeru Muralidhar Babu-A19589
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While executing iptables command using sudo on my system (running MV
> 2.6.10), I see following errors. Could someone please help me understand
> this error ?
>
> sudo: 0 : uid 0 does not exist in the passwd file! ; TTY=unknown
> ; PWD=unknown ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/iptables
>
> Is this a problem with passwd file ? Under what circumstances do we see
> this error ?
Do other commands work with sudo?
What is the exact syntax of the command you are trying to run?
What is the contents of /etc/sudoers?
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2008-10-06 4:56 iptables execution with sudo fails Tanneeru Muralidhar Babu-A19589
2008-10-06 12:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-10-06 13:19 ` Matt Zagrabelny [this message]
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