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Old 03-18-2009
polki polki is offline
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Ok, seems like now the problem shifted a bit. After trying sudo from within perl, the auth-logfile showed this line:
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Mar 18 21:41:58 Debian sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=www-data
So from root i su'ed to ww-data and tried entering the command directly from within the command line. Result is this in auth.log:
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Mar 18 21:43:01 Debian sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
Mar 18 21:43:01 Debian sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [www-data]
Mar 18 21:43:01 Debian sudo: www-data : pam_authenticate: Kommunikationsfehler ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/var/log ; USER=<my desired user> ; COMMAND=<my desired command>
"Kommunikationsfehler" would mean something like communication failure or conversation failure in english.

Now I don't know how to continue at all. I just don't know Linux quite this well. Anybody got me ideas?