Bug 369

Summary:	The stdin (-S) option does not indicate that a newline is required.
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Disco Vince Giffin <vgiffin>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	low
Version:	1.7.0
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	MacOS X

Description Disco Vince Giffin 2009-09-24 15:59:40 MDT

An issue was reported where the following started failing once we upgraded sudo (to 1.7.0):
echo -n password | sudo -S id

The fix here is pretty easy (don't use the "-n" with echo).  Finding the root cause was a little bit trickier.  It would be nice if the manpage mentioned that a newline is required when using the stdin (-S) option.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2009-09-24 20:32:46 MDT

I have added a sentence to that effect to the manual page.