Bug 64

Summary:	':' Character causes problems in commands
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	kobe
Component:	Visudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	normal
Version:	1.6.4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description kobe 2002-01-16 02:53:13 MST

Upgraded the latest RedHat 7.0 RPM release of sudo, sudo-1.6.4-0.7x.2.i386.rpm
from previous version sudo-1.6.3-4 and my /etc/sudoers file became corrupt. It
was complaining about the following line:

Cmnd_Alias WWW_CHOWN=/bin/chown *\:* /www/hosted/*

No matter how many ways I tried to escape the ':' character, it never allowed
it. Have now resorted to:

Cmnd_Alias WWW_CHOWN=/bin/chown * /www/hosted/*

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2002-01-16 10:32:59 MST

I have a fix for this in my tree and will release it as part of sudo 1.6.4p2 within the next day or
two.