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sudo: please include an explanation of #include syntax in /etc/sudoers



unarchive 609741
clone 609741 -1
retitle -1 please explain syntax of include line in sudoers
# documentation
severity -1 minor
found -1 sudo/1.7.4p6-1
quit

Justin B Rye wrote:

> I suspect a lot of users are going to try to activate the feature by
> removing the leading hash (cf. #609741).

Nice find.  Ideas for wording?

Thanks,
Jonathan

> Of course, adding a comment
> to explain the syntax now would require *another* change to
> /etc/snafu...

I think fixing that should be okay.  The problematic case[*] for dpkg is
the change from non-conffile to conffile which happens exactly once
anyway.

[*] by this I mean the part that is more problematic than most
conffiles.  Of course there is always #32877 looming.


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