From a94855f56ebdf214c379a3c4cd00bc6b487e8656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:55:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update for sudo 1.8.5 --- NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3998939d6..94932a039 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.5? * When "noexec" is enabled, sudo_noexec.so will now be prepended to any existing LD_PRELOAD variable instead of replacing it. + * The sudo_noexec.so shared library now wraps the execvpe(), + exect(), posix_spawn() and posix_spawnp() functions. + * The user/group/mode checks on sudoers files have been relaxed. As long as the file is owned by the sudoers uid, not world-writable and not writable by a group other than the sudoers gid, the file @@ -18,6 +21,10 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.5? when PAM is used. Sudo now merges the PAM environment into the user's environment which is typically set by the pam_env module. + * The initial evironment created when env_reset is in effect now + includes the contents of /etc/environment on AIX systems and the + "setenv" and "path" entries from /etc/login.conf on BSD systems. + * The plugin API has been extended in three ways. First, options specified in sudo.conf after the plugin pathname are passed to the plugin's open function. Second, sudo has limited support @@ -28,6 +35,9 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.5? has been incremented to version 1.2. See the sudo_plugin manual for more information. + * Fixed parsing of "Path askpass" and "Path noexec" in sudo.conf, + which was broken in version 1.8.4. + What's new in Sudo 1.8.4p4? * Fixed a bug introduced in Sudo 1.8.4 which prevented "sudo -v"