[sudo-workers] A plugin API questions

[Todd C. Miller]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:33:50 +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:

> There's one thing we're not sure about -- the sudo_plugin man
> page suggests that the plugin should use the conversation and the
> plugin_printf functions to interact with the user or print errors.

That is correct.

> However, the sudoers plugin uses a mix of these functions and plain
> fprintf(stderr, ...). Is there any guideline on where to use one and the
> other? Was the sudoers plugin fully converted to use the conversation
> functions?

The sudoers plugin in the current version of sudo does not write
directly to stderr, though certain standalone programs like visudo
and sudoreplay do.

 - todd