[sudo-announce] sudo 1.7.4 released

[Todd C. Miller]

Sudo version 1.7.4 is now available.  This release of sudo is also
available in binary package form for many common Unix/Linux variants.

Source:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/sudo-1.7.4.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.7.4.tar.gz

Binary packages:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/download.html#binary

For a list of download mirror sites, see:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/download_mirrors.html

Sudo web site:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/

Sudo web site mirrors:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/mirrors.html

Major changes between sudo 1.7.3 and 1.7.4:

 * Sudoedit will now preserve the file extension in the name of the
   temporary file being edited.  The extension is used by some
   editors (such as emacs) to choose the editing mode.

 * Time stamp files have moved from /var/run/sudo to either /var/db/sudo,
   /var/lib/sudo or /var/adm/sudo.  The directories are checked for
   existence in that order.  This prevents users from receiving the
   sudo lecture every time the system reboots.  Time stamp files older
   than the boot time are ignored on systems where it is possible to
   determine this.

 * Ancillary documentation (README files, LICENSE, etc) is now installed
   in a sudo documentation directory.

 * Sudo now recognizes "tls_cacert" as an alias for "tls_cacertfile"
   in ldap.conf.

 * Defaults settings that are tied to a user, host or command may
   now include the negation operator.  For example:
        Defaults:!millert lecture
   will match any user but millert.

 * The default PATH environment variable, used when no PATH variable
    exists, now includes /usr/sbin and /sbin.

 * Sudo now uses polypkg (http://rc.quest.com/topics/polypkg/)
   for cross-platform packing.

 * On Linux, sudo will now restore the nproc resource limit before
   executing a command, unless the limit appears to have been modified
   by pam_limits.  This avoids a problem with bash scripts that open
   more than 32 descriptors on SuSE Linux, where sysconf(_SC_CHILD_MAX)
   will return -1 when RLIMIT_NPROC is set to RLIMIT_UNLIMITED (-1).

 * Visudo will now treat an unrecognized Defaults entry as a parse
   error (sudo will warn but still run).

 * The HOME and MAIL environment variables are now reset based on
   the target user's password database entry when the env_reset
   sudoers option is enabled (which is the case in the default
   configuration).  Users wishing to preserve the original values
   should use a sudoers entry like:

        Defaults env_keep += HOME

   to preserve the old value of HOME and 

        Defaults env_keep += MAIL

   to preserve the old value of MAIL. 

 * The tty_tickets option is now on by default.

 * Fixed a problem in the restoration of the AIX authdb registry setting.

 * If PAM is in use, sudo will wait until the process has finished
   before closing the PAM session.

 * Fixed "sudo -i -u user" where user has no shell listed in the
   password database.

 * When logging I/O, sudo now handles pty read/write returning ENXIO,
   as seen on FreeBSD when the login session has been killed.

 * Sudo now performs I/O logging in the C locale.  This avoids
   locale-related issues when parsing floating point
   numbers in the timing file.

 * Added support for Ubuntu-style admin flag dot files.