Package: sudo
Version: 1.9.5p2-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
If a Cmnd_Alias (others may also be affected) is defined twice, the
error message produced is misleading:
$ cat >test <<EOF
> Cmnd_Alias BUG_TEST = /bin/true
> Cmnd_Alias BUG_TEST = /bin/true
> EOF
$ visudo -c -f test
test:2:32: Alias "en_GB.UTF-8" already defined
Cmnd_Alias BUG_TEST = /bin/true
^
The message appears to include the contents of the $LANG environment
variable, rather than the name of the alias in question. That said, if I
set LANG explicitly I get a blank alias name instead:
$ LANG=en_GB.C visudo -c -f test
test:2:32: Alias "" already defined
Cmnd_Alias BUG_TEST = /bin/true
^
I can reproduce this on multiple very different systems, so I'm
confident that this isn't local weirdness.
Thanks,
Chris
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libaudit1 1:3.0-2
ii libc6 2.31-9
ii libpam-modules 1.4.0-6
ii libpam0g 1.4.0-6
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
sudo recommends no packages.
sudo suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pam.d/sudo changed [not included]
/etc/sudoers [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers'
/etc/sudoers.d/README [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers.d/README'
-- no debconf information
