Bug 52

Summary: Typos and inconsistencies in sudoers(5) manual page
Product: Sudo Reporter: era+sudo
Component: SudoAssignee: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: normal    
Version: 1.6.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description era+sudo 2001-10-22 23:54:19 MDT 
The EBNF definition of Alias is IMHO wrong. Or do I misinterpret it? The section
which says


    Alias ::= 'User_Alias' = User_Alias (':' User_Alias )* |
    ...

has what I think is a gratuitous equals sign. The literal equals sign in the
actual User_Alias definition is included in the EBNF for User_Alias (and the
other aliases, respectively) and, as far as I've been able to grok the doc, does
not have any meaning of its own in EBNF itself.

Feel free to whack me if this is misdirected.

Oh, also, the word "semicolon" is used to refer to the character which is
technically known as "colon" (semicolon is ';', colon is ':'). (This is just
after the part which says "A NAME must start with an upper case letter".)

Hope this helps,

/* era */
Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2001-12-12 13:40:59 MST 
Thanks, those will be fixed in the next release.