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Sudoers Installation in AIX

This document outlines the steps to install and configure sudoers on AIX systems. It involves downloading the sudo rpm, copying it to servers, installing it, configuring the sudoers file to log commands, adding users, and verifying the log file. The sudoers package allows users to run commands as root with a password.

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Sudoers Installation in AIX

This document outlines the steps to install and configure sudoers on AIX systems. It involves downloading the sudo rpm, copying it to servers, installing it, configuring the sudoers file to log commands, adding users, and verifying the log file. The sudoers package allows users to run commands as root with a password.

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Sudoers Installation in AIX

1. Download the rpm file needed to install the sudoers package in AIX
AIX open sources rpms
Search for the file sudo-1.6.7p5-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm and download it
2. Copy the downloaded file to the AIX servers /tmp/SUDO directory
3. change the permission to chmod 777 <Filename>
4.smitty install-> Install and Update Software-> Install Software-->INPUT device /
directory for software [.]#current directory
SOFTWARE to install (Press Esc+F4 which displays the rpm file in the directory)
ACCEPT new license agreements? Yes
and press enter to install the rpm File on your machine
5. Configuring logs for Sudo

Code:

vi /etc/sudoers
place an entry @ the end of the file
Defaults log_year,logfile=/var/log/sudo.log
SUDOERS FILE SAMPLE
# visudo
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# Defaults specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
sound ALL=(ALL) ALL
uday ALL=(ALL) ALL
sandeep ALL=(ALL) ALL
neha ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
# Samples
# %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
Defaults log_year,logfile=/var/log/sudo.log
#Defaults syslog=auth

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6.Enter visudo command to view and putting an entry of the users in the /etc/sudoers
quit it by saving it.
7. Login into the userlogin by opening a duplicate session of su <user name> and enter
sudo -s for sudo -s login credentials.
8. Finally check the log file

Code:
# more /var/log/sudo.log
May 14 18:37:20 2010 : sound1 : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/sound1 ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/bin/ksh
May 14 18:50:06 2010 : uday : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/bin/bsh
May 14 19:23:34 2010 : sound1 : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/sound1 ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/bin/ksh
May 17 14:23:05 2010 : sound1 : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/sound1 ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/bin/ksh
May 17 14:27:56 2010 : neha : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/neha ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/bin/ksh
May 17 14:30:45 2010 : neha : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/neha ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/bin/ksh
May 17 14:31:49 2010 : sandeep : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/sandeep ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/ksh

This is the way to use the sudoers in AIX.

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