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

[Anthony R Fletcher]

Hello Todd

Shame. I guess I'm waiting for 1.7.

Thanks for the response. :-)


		Anthony

On 19 Jun 2007 at 16:06:59, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> 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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