[sudo-workers] sudo 1.6.9 beta 1 is now available

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Tue Jun 19 16:06:59 EDT 2007


In message <20070619192011.GA4331 at cosy.cit.nih.gov>
	so spake Anthony R Fletcher (arif):

> Any chance that the -C flag patch can be added? It doesn't seem to be in
> this release.
> 
> By default sudo closes all file descriptors greater than STDERR. This
> flag allows the user (with appropriate controls) to change this value.
> One use is to pass X11 cookies. This patch was included at some point
> about Jan 2005.

Sorry, that has to wait until 1.7 since sudoers needs to be parsed
early for it to be effective.

 - todd



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