Bug 748

Summary:	sudo parses sudoers config with user's locale
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Daniel Kopeček <dkopecek>
Component:	Sudoers	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gareth.humphries
Priority:	low
Version:	1.8.17
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Daniel Kopeček 2016-06-21 05:23:16 MDT

If user uses locale like cs_CZ.UTF-8 and sudo is configred to use passwd_timeout to seconds, like 0.1 = 6s. sudo command uses user's locale to parse this number and prints error message.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # echo "Defaults passwd_timeout = 0.1" >> /etc/sudoers
2. $ LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 sudo bash

Actual results:
$ LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 sudo bash
sudo: value `0.1' is invalid for option `passwd_timeout'
[sudo] password for test:

Expected results:
$ LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 sudo bash
[sudo] password for test:

Tested on the latest stable release. I also tried to set sudoers_locale but it had no effect on this issue.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2016-06-30 11:08:35 MDT

What distro and version of Linux are you running?  I can't seem to reproduce this on Ubuntu 16.04 and sudo 1.8.17.

Comment 2 Todd C. Miller 2016-06-30 11:12:53 MDT

Never mind, I can reproduce this on CentOS 7.

Comment 3 Todd C. Miller 2016-06-30 12:48:52 MDT

Fixed by https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/c8deb0da75b4

Comment 4 Todd C. Miller 2016-09-20 15:14:31 MDT

I believe that sudo 1.8.18 fixes the locale issues.

Comment 5 Gareth Humphries 2016-11-14 08:27:03 MST

Sorry guys, closed this by mistake (thought I was on a different bug).