Tom H wrote:
> I've just re-read the sudoers man page (after a VERY long time),
> thinking that it would help me "refudiate" the fact that the
> "Defaults" line had some in-built, unlisted defaults, when in fact,
> I've been misusing "sudo -L" for more years than I care to remember...
And I see that with the latest sudo in Sid that it installs a new
upstream sudo and the upstream sudo no longer has the sudo -L option.
The 'sudo -L' is gone now.
Bob
Here is the upstream ChangeLog concerning sudo -L:
2010-05-28 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
* doc/sudo.cat, doc/sudo.man.in, doc/sudo.pod, src/parse_args.c,
src/sudo_usage.h.in:
Completely remove the -L flag from the sudo front end.
[3d220030b720]
2009-12-07 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
* sudo.pod:
The -L flag will be removed in sudo 1.7.4
[ffd026084333]
1999-10-12 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
* sudo.cat, sudo.html, sudo.man, sudo.pod:
document -L flag
[dc803e1ce0d7]
1999-09-08 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Add a "-L" flag to list the name of options with their descriptions.
This may only be temporary.
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