Hi Joost, On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:30:37PM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > Thanks a lot! I'll wait for your next revision of this patch, as we've > just discussed IRL.
Here it is. I've tested the proposed solution (moving your sudoers to sudoers.d and keeping the default one) after an upgrade to sudo-1.8.5p2-1, and it works. -- Tim Marston ed.am
Index: en/upgrading.dbk =================================================================== --- en/upgrading.dbk (revision 9557) +++ en/upgrading.dbk (working copy) @@ -1227,6 +1227,37 @@ may be required, either before or during the upgrade; these are detailed below on a per-package basis. </para> +<section id="issues-sudo"> +<title>Sudo</title> +<para> +If you have modified <filename>/etc/sudoers</filename> then you should be aware +of changes made to how <systemitem role="package">sudo</systemitem> +configuration is handled. The default <filename>/etc/sudoers</filename> now +includes the following two directives: +</para> +<programlisting>Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"</programlisting> +<programlisting>#includedir /etc/sudoers.d</programlisting> +<para> +Neither of these entries are added to your <filename>/etc/sudoers</filename> +automatically during the upgrade. (Although you will still be able to run +<command>sudo</command> commands by specifying their fully-qualified path.) So +you might wish to consider migrating your changes to the new +<filename>/etc/sudoers.d</filename> directory and using the default +<filename>/etc/sudoers</filename> file. For example: +</para> +<screen> +# mv /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/mychanges +# mv /etc/sudoers.dpkg-new /etc/sudoers +</screen> +<para> +You may also need to edit your <filename>/etc/sudoers.d/mychanges</filename> to +remove unwanted <literal>Defaults</literal> and <literal>#includedir</literal> +entries. You should use <command>visudo</command> for this: +</para> +<screen> +# visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/mychanges +</screen> +</section> <section id="issues-evolution"> <title>Evolution</title> <para>
