Re: sudo 1.8.15rc1 released

Renato Botelho <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:20:36 -0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tools.sudo.devel
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> On Oct 1, 2015, at 09:14, Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> The first release candidate of sudo 1.8.15 is now available.
> 
> In addition to bug fixes, sudo 1.8.15 includes changes to how the
> time stamp files are locked which could use some more extensive
> testing.  The upshot is that sudo can now be used multiple times
> in a pipeline even when a password is required and the user will
> only be prompted once.
> 
> For example:
> 
> $ sudo -k
> $ sudo echo test | sudo cat
> Password:
> test
> 
> I've tested the time stamp changes on Ubuntu 14.04, Solaris 11,
> HP-UX 11, AIX 5.3, Mac OS X 10.10 and OpenBSD 5.8.  Tests on other
> systems would be appreciated, especially backgrounding sudo at the
> password prompt (or just running it in the background when a password
> is required) and then running sudo again in the same terminal.  This
> should verify that the time stamp record is unlocked when sudo is
> suspended.
> 
> In other words:
> 
> $ sudo -k
> $ sudo id
> Password: ^Z
> 
> Suspended
> $ sudo id
> Password: blah
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
> 
> $ fg
> sudo id
> Password:

Tested on FreeBSD 11-current, no problems.

--
Renato Botelho

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