Re: simulate sudo -n in lenny

2011-07-14 Thread Felix Dorner
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > You could/should upgrade to Debian Stable (Squeeze) and then get the > current sudo.  Lenny is now the old stable. > Not under my control unfortunately :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

simulate sudo -n in lenny

2011-07-13 Thread Felix Dorner
Hi, I was searching for a way to tell sudo "Please fail immediately if you need to ask me for a password" and found sudo -n. Unfortunately it turns out that debian lenny ships with an older sudo which doesn't have this option. I wonder if there's a trick and tried: echo "" | sudo -S -u username c

Install puppet 2.6.8 from squeeze-backports to lenny

2011-06-01 Thread Felix Dorner
Hi, I have puppet from http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/puppet (2.6.2-4~bpo50+1) in a lenny install. Is it also possible to go one step further and get it from squeeze-backports instead (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/puppet (2.6.8-1~bpo60+1))? Thanks, Felix -- To UNSUB