[sudo-users] Weird sudoers problem

[Todd C. Miller]

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