diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6dc0e2179..653022fb4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.6? used to give a user the ability to run a command as themselves but with an expanded privilege set. + * Fixed a problem with the reboot and shutdown commands on some + systems (such as HP-UX and BSD). On these systems, reboot sends + all processes (except itself) SIGTERM. When sudo received + SIGTERM, it would relay it to the reboot process, thus killing + reboot before it had a chance to actually reboot the system. + * Support for using the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) as a source of sudoers data.