Bug 64 – ':' Character causes problems in commands

Bug 64 - ':' Character causes problems in commands


Summary:	':' Character causes problems in commands

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Visudo
Version:	1.6.4
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	normal normal
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2002-01-16 02:53 MST by kobe
Modified:	2002-01-16 14:32 MST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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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.