PSARC/2009/205: Sudo upgrade to version 1.7 (automatic)

[James Carlson]

Joep Vesseur writes:
> On 04/01/09 13:38, James Carlson wrote:
> > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes:
> >>         This upgrade is upwards compatible. The upstream version adds
> >>         several new flags to sudo and some extensions to the sudoers
> >>         file which are explained in the upgraded manual page delivered
> >>         with this project.
> > 
> > Any hints about those changes?
> 
> The most visible changes are
>  - /etc/sudoers parsing is extended with an #include facility
>  - a new option (-g) to specify a primary group for the command to run as
>  - a new option (-A) to use a graphical prompter program
>  - a new option (-n) to not ask for a password but exit with error if
>    authentication is required

That's all I wanted to see.  Thanks!

+1

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