Please backport sudo 1.7.0-1ubuntu1

[Liz Fong-Jones]

I'd like to have use of the #include directive in sudo, which is present in sudo 1.7.0. Since sudo 1.7.0 has just made it into karmic, it seems like it should be possible to backport it safely. To my knowledge, no packages link against sudo and it only has dependencies upon pam and libc.

[Liz Fong-Jones (lizthegrey)]

http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo-ldap_1.7.0-1ubuntu1~8.04prevu1_i386.deb
http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo_1.7.0-1ubuntu1~8.04prevu1_i386.deb

[Liz Fong-Jones (lizthegrey)]

I tested myself, including the #include functionality and verified all is working. Unassigning so that this gets attention from other people.

[Liz Fong-Jones (lizthegrey)]

Builds cleanly for dapper as well, but haven't yet tried installing. Going to pop over to some amd64 machines and run builds/installs there too.

http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo-ldap_1.7.0-1ubuntu1~6.06prevu1_i386.deb
http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo_1.7.0-1ubuntu1~6.06prevu1_i386.deb

[Liz Fong-Jones (lizthegrey)]

Confirmed 64-bit clean.

http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo-ldap_1.7.0-1ubuntu1~6.06prevu1_amd64.deb
http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo_1.7.0-1ubuntu1~6.06prevu1_amd64.deb
http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo-ldap_1.7.0-1ubuntu1~8.04prevu1_amd64.deb
http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo_1.7.0-1ubuntu1~8.04prevu1_amd64.deb

[Liz Fong-Jones (lizthegrey)]

Verified that these packages work on both dapper and hardy, although in the event of incorrect permissions on an #included file, sudo segfaults after displaying the error rather than exiting gracefully. I'm not sure that this isn't identical behavior on karmic though since I don't have an install of karmic handy.

[Liz Fong-Jones (lizthegrey)]

I've let this bake in for multiple days on a variety of machines (64-bit and 32-bit, dapper and hardy). I believe that it should in principle be ready to move forward, but more testing would be helpful. Help?

This should be a really simple backport given no source changes are required and there are minimal dependencies.

[Liz Fong-Jones (lizthegrey)]

Signed checksums for the paranoid: http://www.ctyalcove.org/~elizabeth/sudo_deb_checksums.asc

You probably should really use prevu though.

[Kevin Lyda (lyda)]

I just tested this on a Hardy install. It built fine, installed fine and ran fine.

I creates a /etc/sudoers.local file and moved the %admin line to there. The visudo command complains if #include files don't exist and offers to edit them when they do exist. sudo behaves as expected with the changes sudoers + sudoers.local layout.

The only minor issue is that vim syntax files on hardy still show #include lines in sudoers as a comment, but that's probably outside the scope of this package.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

dapper is EOL, there will be no further releases

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

intrepid is no longer supported and will receive no further updates

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

jaunty is no longer supported and will receive no further updates