Re: 'sudo' built w/pam option sometimes fails on i386 netbsd-9 and -current

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, John D. Baker wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, John D. Baker wrote:
> 
> >   sudo: unable to initialize PAM: Operation not permitted
> > 
> > I see it most often when re-authorizing during the "timestamp_timeout"
> > period (using 'pkg_rolling-replace'), but it has happened during initial
> > interactive use as well.
> 
> Now that I think about it, this would occur only after "timestamp_timeout"
> has expired and 'sudo' is about to prompt for the password.

No, it does also happen when "timestamp_timeout" has not yet expired.
It happened again and when I restarted the replacement of the package
pkg_rr was working on when it failed, it did not ask for authentication.

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