From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:00:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that fact that setting ignore_dot in sudoers has no effect
X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_6_8~196
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3802623a0463e3c750016fa1dbb42038eaeba22f;p=sudo

Document that fact that setting ignore_dot in sudoers has no effect
due to the fact that find_path() is called *before* sudoers is read.
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diff --git a/sudoers.pod b/sudoers.pod
index c913905af..52bfbf604 100644
--- a/sudoers.pod
+++ b/sudoers.pod
@@ -259,7 +259,10 @@ by default.
 
 If set, B<sudo> will ignore '.' or '' (current dir) in the C<PATH>
 environment variable; the C<PATH> itself is not modified.  This
-flag is I<@ignore_dot@> by default.
+flag is I<@ignore_dot@> by default.  Currently, while it is possible
+to set I<ignore_dot> in I<sudoers>, its value is not used.  This option
+should be considered read-only (it will be fixed in a future version
+of B<sudo>).
 
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