Re: drilling down a parser error in file near line X.

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:24:08 -0000, Randall Badilla Castro wrote:

> Hi Todd; thanks a lot by your replay. 
> I run grep against /etc/sudoers and every file on /etc/sudoers.d.
> Just /etc/sudoers.d/sudoers_BEL had DMSETUP "configured". Then
> reviewed with visudo -f [every file] and confirm DMSETUP just
> existed on the mentioned sudoers file.

It must either be defined elsewhere or /etc/sudoers.d/sudoers_BEL
must be getting included more than once.

> About your question of visudo -c; yes the messages were :
>   /etc/sudoers.d/sudoers_BEL: Alias "DMSETUP" already defined near line 69 <<<

There is enough info for sudo to provide a better error message to
help track this kind of problem down.  I just committed a change
to make this error look more like:

    /etc/sudoers.d/sudoers_BEL:69:35: duplicate Cmnd_Alias "DMSETUP",
    previously defined at /etc/sudoers:50:12

which should help in the future.

You could build the latest sudo sources from GitHub and, without
even installing it, run "./plugins/sudoers/visudo -c" from the build
directory and see if the improved error output helps you track down
the problem.

 - todd
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