From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:49:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Don't error out on a zero-length sudoers file.  With the advent of
X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_7_0~72
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=18e764403279df1333199741e5a112d3c159d064;p=sudo

Don't error out on a zero-length sudoers file.  With the advent of
#include the user could create a situation where sudo is unusable.
---

diff --git a/sudo.c b/sudo.c
index 5be5cbc48..5d97fc0eb 100644
--- a/sudo.c
+++ b/sudo.c
@@ -1065,8 +1065,6 @@ open_sudoers(sudoers, keepopen)
 	log_error(USE_ERRNO|NO_EXIT, "can't stat %s", sudoers);
     else if (!S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode))
 	log_error(NO_EXIT, "%s is not a regular file", sudoers);
-    else if (statbuf.st_size == 0)
-	log_error(NO_EXIT, "%s is zero length", sudoers);
     else if ((statbuf.st_mode & 07777) != SUDOERS_MODE)
 	log_error(NO_EXIT, "%s is mode 0%o, should be 0%o", sudoers,
 	    (unsigned int) (statbuf.st_mode & 07777),