CentOS - Aug 2012 - Latest sudo update for 5.8 breaks postgresql

Hello,

The latest update to sudo (sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2) breaks postgresql.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846631

It might break other services that rely on access to /etc/nsswitch.conf
too. Assuming you have a "sudoers" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf that
file
will be recreated with incorrect file permissions.

After having had issues with selinux permissions on that particular file
in two previous updates, this time it's the regular file permissions
that will break access to /etc/nsswitch.conf for at least postgresql.

Regards,
Leonard.

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mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 12:21 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander
wrote:
> The latest update to sudo (sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2) breaks postgresql.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846631
> 
> It might break other services that rely on access to /etc/nsswitch.conf
> too.
I should have mentioned that there's an easy fix if the package got
installed:

# chmod 644 /etc/nsswitch.conf

should get things going again.

Regards,
Leonard.

-- 
mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

On 08/09/2012 05:21 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The latest update to sudo (sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2) breaks postgresql.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846631
>
> It might break other services that rely on access to /etc/nsswitch.conf
> too. Assuming you have a "sudoers" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf
that file
> will be recreated with incorrect file permissions.
>
> After having had issues with selinux permissions on that particular file
> in two previous updates, this time it's the regular file permissions
> that will break access to /etc/nsswitch.conf for at least postgresql.
This bug is also reported in the CentOS bugs database:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5883

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