sudo: please include an explanation of #include syntax in /etc/sudoers
unarchive 609741
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retitle -1 please explain syntax of include line in sudoers
# documentation
severity -1 minor
found -1 sudo/1.7.4p6-1
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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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