[sudo-users] sudo 1.8.1b2 and 1.7.6b2 released

Tue Mar 22 09:33:36 EDT 2011

The first public beta versions of sudo 1.8.1 and 1.7.6 are now
available.

Source:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/sudo-1.8.1b2.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/beta/sudo-1.8.1b2.tar.gz
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/sudo-1.7.6b2.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/beta/sudo-1.7.6b2.tar.gz

Binary packages:
    http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/beta/packages/index.html

Major changes between sudo 1.8.0 and 1.8.1b2:

 * A new LDAP setting, sudoers_search_filter, has been added to
   ldap.conf.  This setting can be used to restrict the set of
   records returned by the LDAP query.  Based on changes from Matthew
   Thomas.

 * The sudoers parser now returns an error for a Defaults line
   that comes immediately after a line continuation character.

 * White space is now permitted within a User_List when used in
   conjunction with a per-user Defaults definition.

 * Support for double-quoted words in the sudoers file has been fixed.
   The change in 1.7.5 for escaping the double quote character
   caused the double quoting to only be available at the beginning
   of an entry.

 * The fix for resuming a suspended shell in 1.7.5 caused problems
   with resuming non-shells on Linux.  Sudo will now save the process
   group ID of the program it is running on suspend and restore it
   when resuming, which fixes both problems.

 * A bug that could result in corrupted output in "sudo -l" has been
   fixed.

 * Sudo will now create an entry in the utmp (or utmpx) file when
   allocating a pseudo-tty (e.g. when logging I/O).  The "set_utmp"
   and "utmp_runas" sudoers file options can be used to control this.
   Other policy plugins may use the "set_utmp" and "utmp_user"
   entries in the command_info list.

 * The sudoers policy now stores the TSID field in the logs
   even when the "iolog_file" sudoers option is defined to a value
   other than %{sessid}.  Previously, the TSID field was only
   included in the log file when the "iolog_file" option was set
   to its default value.

 * The sudoreplay utility now supports arbitrary session IDs.
   Previously, it would only work with the base-36 session IDs
   that the sudoers plugin uses by default.

 * Sudo now passes "run_shell=true" to the policy plugin in the
   settings list when sudo's -s command line option is specified.
   The sudoers policy plugin uses this to implement the "set_home"
   sudoers option which was missing from sudo 1.8.0.

 * The "noexec" functionality has been moved out of the sudoers
   policy plugin and into the sudo front-end, which matches the
   behavior documented in the plugin writer's guide.  As a result,
   the path to the noexec file is now specified in the sudo.conf
   file instead of the sudoers file.

 * On Solaris 10, the PRIV_PROC_EXEC privilege is now used to
   implement the "noexec" feature.  Previously, this was implemented
   via the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.

 * The exit values for "sudo -l", "sudo -v" and "sudo -l command"
   have been fixed in the sudoers policy plugin.

 * The sudoers policy plugin now passes the login class, if any,
   back to the sudo front-end.

 * The sudoers policy plugin was not being linked with requisite
   libraries in certain configurations.

Major changes between sudo 1.7.5 and 1.7.6b2: