[sudo-users] Problems configuring multiple logservers

[Todd C. Miller]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:50:46 +0200, =?utf-8?q?Niels_Kobsch=C3=A4tzki_via_sudo-u
sers?= wrote:

> I am trying to add two log_servers to my sudoers:
>
> Defaults log_servers = a.b.c.d e.f.g.h
>
> When I do that I get an error:
>
> /etc/sudoers.d/00_sudo-log:2:39: syntax error
> Defaults log_servers = a.b.c.d e.f.g.h
>                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> According to the man-page log_servers is a white space-separated list.
>
> I get the error on a Debian 11 with sudo 1.9.5 and on a FreeBSD 13 with
> sudo 1.9.10

Any Defaults value that includes white space needs to be enclosed
in double quotes or have the space escaped with a backslash.
For example:

Defaults log_servers = "a.b.c.d e.f.g.h"

or:

Defaults log_servers = a.b.c.d\ e.f.g.h

 - todd