Friday, February 21, 2014

Solaris: where is the sudoers file?

Some would say /etc/opt/csw/sudoers, others /usr/local/etc/sudoers and I have even found it in /opt/csw/etc/sudoer. In fact I have seen people referring to /opt/sfw/etc/sudoers. The reality is that it depends on the environment.

The first thing you need to know is where is sudo command using a regular user:
$ which sudo
/opt/csw/bin/sudo
Now that we know where the bin is we need to locate the sudoers file for which you will run the below as root:
# truss /opt/csw/bin/sudo ls 2>&1 | grep sudoers
You will get something like:
stat64("/opt/csw/libexec/sudoers.so", 0x08047C70) = 0 xstat(2, "/opt/csw/libexec/sudoers.so", 0x08047090) = 0 resolvepath("/opt/csw/libexec/sudoers.so", "/opt/csw/libexec/sudoers.so", 1023) = 27 open("/opt/csw/libexec/sudoers.so", O_RDONLY) = 4 stat64("/opt/csw/libexec/sudoers.so", 0x08047C70) = 0 lstat64("/etc/opt/csw/sudoers", 0x08047BD0) = 0 open64("/etc/opt/csw/sudoers", O_RDONLY) = 4 openat(-3041965, "/etc/opt/csw/sudoers.d", O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
So in this case the file is /etc/opt/csw/sudoers.

If you want to install sudo take a look at this post.

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