Hi, I am setting up a Centos server and after going through the basic hardening process I realised there is no 'sudo' package on the box. The system is completely locked down so I can't access the internet and since it is in a remote location I cannot get the package off the media. The only option I have is to somehow lift the sudo files off an existing server and move across.

Is this possible? where are the files located that I need to move and does anyone have instructions that I could follow?

Thanks.

Seriously, get someone local to the machine to get it off the media, its going to be soooo much easier

Not advisable...the installed package - as with any other package by the way - has a conf file that is tuned in to the local platform, very rarely is a copy-n-paste of a package possible, and even then, a tweak of the conf file imposes itself.

If you dont have any access from the outside (root wise that is) the only option is to gain physical access to the box and installing sudo there.

As a humble word of advice: test this kind of installs on a physically accessible box (the LAN for example) before rolling out...

By the way, to locate anything (well, most of the stuff anyway) use "which" - like so:

that should give you the location of the executable, not the sattelite files as such (conf file, drivers, shared libs, stuff)...

Good luck

Thor

Thanks for the quick replies.

This is impossible I am afraid. The only close-to-physical-access I can get to the box is via ILO. Server is in a different geographical location

@Thor - Did the exact same setup on other servers and I am clueless why this particular sever had packages missed out, probably an oversight.

(I am reluctant to use this option but ...) I could use an RPM couldn't I? I know I will probably need dozens of dependencies

Another option would be to get the media into a virtual drive and load is via ILO. The difficulty is how do I get yum to look at the media and list the packages allowing me to add the one I need.

Thanks.

As far as installing goes on RedHat's (and derived systems) - this is the best way to do it. Packages need dependencies, the very word stated the need therefore so if you could use an RPM, that's the way to do this...

Heh, happens to the best of us...

Thor

sudo isnt installed by default in CentOS.

You should be able to su then install sudo if you really want it.

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These statements don't necessarily imply that you have either hardened or setup this host.

Note: Install sudo before "hardening"?

Sorted! Thanks for all all the help and comments.