Bug 194 – Incorrect permissions on /etc/sudoers after using visudo

Bug 194 - Incorrect permissions on /etc/sudoers after using visudo


Summary:	Incorrect permissions on /etc/sudoers after using visudo

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Visudo
Version:	1.6.8
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	normal enhancement
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2005-08-12 10:29 MDT by Jeremy Vanderburg
Modified:	2005-10-28 14:42 MDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Jeremy Vanderburg 2005-08-12 10:29:40 MDT

When using visudo to edit the /etc/sudoers file, the permissions are reset to 
chmod 640, which causes sudo to complain that the mode of /etc/sudoers is 0640 
and should be 0440.  The mode of the file must then manually be changed back to 
440.  This is only a minor annoyance, but may be worth looking in to.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2005-10-28 12:42:24 MDT

This sounds like you have a version of visudo that doesn't match your sudo binary.  visudo already 
does set the mode on sudoers to be non-writable.