[Bug 823292] New: Man page for sudo does not match version supplied

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823292 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823292#c0 Summary: Man page for sudo does not match version supplied Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Documentation AssignedTo: ke@suse.com ReportedBy: michael@aperantos.com QAContact: ke@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/536.29.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.4 Safari/536.29.13 I normally use 'sudo -E -s' to gain a root shell retaining my user account's home directory as $HOME. As openSUSE sets the 'always_set_home' option in /etc/sudoers I had turned this off, but despite this it would set the home directory to the target user. After asking about this on the community forum ( https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-log... ) I discovered that the version of sudo provided with openSUSE is compiled with the set_home option enabled. Turning this option off in /etc/sudoers resulted in the expected behaviour. The man page provided in the default openSUSE installation states for set_home that "This flag is off by default." This is wrong and made it impossible to discover the cause of the unexpected behaviour. Ideally I do not think the program should be compiled in a non-standard way, especially when the default configuration of the /etc/sudoers file includes a stronger setting so it would only apply to those who customize their configuration. But as there will have been a decision made to make it this way, the documentation needs to be updated to reflect this difference. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: man sudo Actual Results: This flag is off by default. Expected Results: This flag is on by default. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 823292] Man page for sudo does not match version supplied

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823292 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823292#c Karl Eichwalder changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|ke@suse.com |vcizek@suse.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 823292] Man page for sudo does not match version supplied

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823292 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823292#c1 Vitezslav Cizek changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED CC| |vcizek@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Vitezslav Cizek 2013-06-11 09:40:49 CEST --- (In reply to comment #0)

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The man page provided in the default openSUSE installation states for set_home that "This flag is off by default." This is wrong and made it impossible to discover the cause of the unexpected behaviour.

Thanks for the report. I've fixed the default status in the manual for the flags openSUSE sets explicitly in /etc/sudoers: always_set_home, targetpw and insults.

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Ideally I do not think the program should be compiled in a non-standard way, especially when the default configuration of the /etc/sudoers file includes a stronger setting so it would only apply to those who customize their configuration. But as there will have been a decision made to make it this way, the documentation needs to be updated to reflect this difference.

Well, almost all distributions do their own tweaks. This setting has been the default in openSUSE for a long time, so a change will be made only if it'll be really desired. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.