Sudo Up gradation in AIX

The following are the steps to upgrade the sudo old version to new version.

#cp -p /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.01June11
#mkdir /tmp/sudo
#mv sudo.1.8.1.2.bff.gz /tmp/sudo
#cd /tmp/sudo
#gzip -d sudo.1.8.1.2.bff.gz

#lslpp -l |grep -i sudo
USFSsudo.rte 1.7.4.4 COMMITTED Sudo 1.7.4p4 NOEXEC none
USFSsudo.rte 1.7.4.4 COMMITTED Sudo 1.7.4p4 NOEXEC none

#installp -u USFSsudo.rte

#cd /tmp/sudo
#installp -agX -d . sudo
#ln -s /usr/local/sbin/visudo /usr/sbin/visudo
#ln -s /usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo
#ln -s /usr/local/bin/sudoedit /usr/bin/sudoedit
#ln -s /usr/local/bin/sudoreplay /usr/bin/sudoreplay

( dont close the present terminal, open up new terminal and try to do sudo su – )

$sudo -V
$sudo su –

If /etc/suoders got change, then “cp -p /etc/sudoers.01June11 /etc/sudoers.

By: Bibhuti Bhusan