From cc4e1a372a06b8ed0a712a8adfcf5669dd0b26b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:24:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update for sudo 1.8.1 beta --- NEWS | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 03569e6de..a41236523 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,17 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.1? + * A new LDAP setting, sudoers_search_filter, has been added to + ldap.conf. This setting can be used to restrict the set of + records returned by the LDAP query. + + * White space is now permitted within a User_List when used in + conjunction with a per-user Defaults definition. + + * Support for double-quoted words in the sudoers file has been fixed. + The change in 1.7.5 for escaping the double quote character + caused the double quoting to only be available at the beginning + of an entry. + * The fix for resuming a suspended shell in 1.7.5 caused problems with resuming non-shells on Linux. Sudo will now save the process group ID of the program it is running on suspend and restore it @@ -24,7 +36,7 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.1? Previously, it would only work with the base-36 session IDs that the sudoers plugin uses by default. - * Sudo now passes "user_shell=true" to the policy plugin in the + * Sudo now passes "run_shell=true" to the policy plugin in the settings list when sudo's -s command line option is specified. The sudoers policy plugin uses this to implement the "set_home" sudoers option which was missing from sudo 1.8.0.