[sudo-announce] sudo 1.8.10 released

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Mon Mar 10 14:09:53 MDT 2014


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Sudo version 1.8.10 is now available.  The biggest change in sudo
1.8.10 is a new time stamp file format that uses the monotonic clock
where available.  This prevents clock changes from affecting how
the time stamp file is interpreted.

Source:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/sudo-1.8.10.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.8.10.tar.gz

SHA256 checksum:
    781296ec571e2595cfaa13846902ea03684ef826f261d61e6705da90a4f904aa
MD5 checksum:
    954d64906c3f6e2436f33445a049c58b

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 1.8.10 and 1.8.9p5:

 * It is now possible to disable network interface probing in
   sudo.conf by changing the value of the probe_interfaces
   setting.

 * When listing a user's privileges (sudo -l), the sudoers plugin
   will now prompt for the user's password even if the targetpw,
   rootpw or runaspw options are set.

 * The sudoers plugin uses a new format for its time stamp files.
   Each user now has a single file which may contain multiple records
   when per-tty time stamps are in use (the default).  The time
   stamps use a monotonic timer where available and are once again
   located in a directory under /var/run.  The lecture status is
   now stored separately from the time stamps in a different directory.
   Bug #616

 * sudo's -K option will now remove all of the user's time stamps,
   not just the time stamp for the current terminal.  The -k option
   can be used to only disable time stamps for the current terminal.

 * If sudo was started in the background and needed to prompt for
   a password, it was not possible to suspend it at the password
   prompt.  This now works properly.

 * LDAP-based sudoers now uses a default search filter of
   (objectClass=sudoRole) for more efficient queries.  The netgroup
   query has been modified to avoid falling below the minimum length
   for OpenLDAP substring indices.

 * The new "use_netgroups" sudoers option can be used to explicitly
   enable or disable netgroups support.  For LDAP-based sudoers,
   netgroup support requires an expensive substring match on the
   server.  If netgroups are not needed, this option can be disabled
   to reduce the load on the LDAP server.

 * Sudo is once again able to open the sudoers file when the group
   on sudoers doesn't match the expected value, so long as the file
   is not group writable.

 * Sudo now installs an init.d script to clear the time stamp
   directory at boot time on AIX and HP-UX systems.  These systems
   either lack /var/run or do not clear it on boot.

 * The JSON format used by "visudo -x" now properly supports the
   negation operator.  In addition, the Options object is now the
   same for both Defaults and Cmnd_Specs.

 * Czech and Serbian translations for sudoers from translationproject.org.

 * Catalan translation for sudo from translationproject.org.
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