[sudo-users] sudo 1.7.4p4 - solaris 10 - edits with vi, visudo or sudoedit - display corrupted

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Tue Jan 18 08:57:04 EST 2011


On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:50:45 GMT, "Macleod, Paul" wrote:

> On Solaris 10 and running with Sudo version 1.7.4p4, have encountered a
> feature with regards the use of 'vi', 'visudo' and 'sudoedit'.  That is to
> say, it is possible within a few seconds of using the editor to get display
> corruption.   When moving the cursor, characters from other lines / position
> are displayed - the faith in editing the file is lost.

That should be fixed in 1.7.4p5.

 - todd



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