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Re: apt-get aborts in subshell with redirections on Debian 12



On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:52:09AM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
> On 25/09/2023 20:21, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Given the presence of an /etc/sudoers.dpkg-dist file on my system,
> > which does in fact contain this:
> > 
> > # This fixes CVE-2005-4890 and possibly breaks some versions of kdesu
> > # (#1011624, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452532)
> > Defaults        use_pty
> > 
> > it looks like you've solved *most* of the mystery.
> 
> But @Greg, if you have "Defaults        use_pty" why haven't you been getting the same instant aborts that I was?

Because it's NOT in /etc/sudoers.  It's in /etc/sudoers.dpkg-dist which
is what WOULD have been installed if I had chosen to overwrite my
existing conffile with the new one.  But I didn't.


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