uid match not working in sudoers file

[Dani Ametller]

[Impact]

sudo 1.8.9p5 had a bug which caused any rule added to sudoers to be ignored if the user was stated by user id (with the username works just fine).

[Test Case]

* Rules using user id should work after the fix.

#33 ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/whatever

* Also make sure that rules using username still work.

myusername ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/whatever

[Regression Potential]

This bug has been fixed in the current stable release of sudo (1.8.10p3).

You can check the original bug report (and patch) here: http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=640

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Fixed in 1.8.10p3 by http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/315eff4add59

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I've uploaded this to the trusty queue for review by the SRU team.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Dani, or anyone else affected,

Accepted sudo into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

UID confirmed to work now, thanks.

[Mark Huijgen (mark-sf-net)]

New version sudo 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.2 fixes the UID problem for me as well on Trusty.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sudo - 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.2

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sudo (1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.2) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * Ensure uid matching works in the sudoers file. (LP: #1319403)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:59:47 -0700

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for sudo has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.