[sudo-users] Weird sudoers problem

[Galen Johnson]

One other thing you can try is to open the sudoers file in vi and type
':set list', that will also show hidden control characters.

=G=

-----Original Message-----
From: sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com
[mailto:sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com] On Behalf Of Todd C. Miller
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:24 AM
To: Craig Browning
Cc: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Subject: Re: [sudo-users] Weird sudoers problem

In message
<OF57351CAC.B7BDF46A-ON872573AF.0053E785-862573AF.00544178 at us.ibm.co
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	so spake Craig Browning (cbrownin):

> There are hidden characters in the sudoers file that are not visible
to 
> root but when you cat /etc/sudoers  as another user on the system
there 
> are several ^| characters that are preventing sudo from working for
that 
> user.  Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Do you see the control characters if you use:

    cat -v /etc/sudoers | more

or whatever your pager of choice is?

 - todd
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