[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#793660: Bug#793660: libsss-sudo: breaks sudo's default entry / floods root inbox with many "SECURITY information" emails.

[Timo Aaltonen]

reassign 793660 sudo
thanks

On 26.07.2015 10:17, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Package: libsss-sudo
> Version: 1.12.5-1
> Severity: normal
> Control: affects -1 sudo
> 
> As reported in
> 
>   * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sssd/+bug/1249777
>   * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879633
> 
> "libsss-sudo" breaks sudo's default entry in such way that sudo sends "*** 
> SECURITY information" email with "problem with defaults entries" on every 
> invocation of `sudo`.
> 
> On my system `sudo` is actively used by several services so I'm getting 
> hundred (or more) of such emails to root's inbox every hour.
> 
> Uninstalling "libsss-sudo" stopped flood of emails.

This is a sudo bug, apparently fixed in Fedora by this:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/sudo.git/tree/sudo-1.8.8-sssdfixes.patch

wonder why it never went upstream

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t