manpage confused about mail_badpass vs always_set_home

Bug #606195 reported by Martin Pool
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sudo (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: sudo

lucid sudoers(5) says

       mail_badpass If set, sudo will set the HOME environment variable to the home directory of the target user (which is
                       root unless the -u option is used). This effectively means that the -H option is always implied. This
                       flag is off by default.

however this description is fairly obviously about always_set_home not mail_badpass.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: sudo 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: a72aa433ee7cbc70b12a74f6938b856b
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Fri Jul 16 11:39:21 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: sudo

Revision history for this message
Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in sudo (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Lesmana Zimmer (lesmana) wrote :

upstream bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542086

any chance this will be backported to ubuntu lucid?

Dan Streetman (ddstreet)
Changed in sudo (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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