From: Todd C. Miller Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:03:02 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Update 1.7.5 entries. X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_7_5~119 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ff30c59eb6fd21e3cece1a6cbc00ffff9ea7c4a5;p=sudo Update 1.7.5 entries. --HG-- branch : 1.7 --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 43a39643d..6f20d649d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,9 +14,41 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.7.5? match the name used to look it up. This may happen on some systems that do case insensitive lookups or that truncate long names. - * Gcc will no longer display warnings on glibc systems that use + * GCC will no longer display warnings on glibc systems that use the warn_unused_result attribute for write(2) and other system calls. + * If a PAM account management module denies access, sudo now prints + a more useful error message and stops trying to validate the user. + + * Fixed a bug introduced in sudo 1.7.3 where the ticket file was not + being honored when the "targetpw" sudoers Defaults option was enabled. + + * Fixed a potential hang on idle systems when the sudo-run process + exits immediately. + + * Fixed a crash when Solaris project support was enabled and the + -g flag was used. + + * Sudo no longer exits with an error when support for + auditing is compiled in but auditing is not enabled. + + * Fixed a crash with "sudo -l" when auditing is enabled and the + user is not allowed to run any commands on the host. + + * Sudo will now examine all matching LDAP entries when doing a + lookup, even if there has already been a positive match. This + catches negative matches that may exist in other entries and + more closely match the sudoers file behavior. + + * Sudo now includes a copy of zlib that will be used on systems + that do not have zlib installed. + + * The --with-umask-override configure flag has been added to enable + the "umask_override" sudoers Defaults option at build time. + + * Sudo now unblocks all signals on startup to avoid problems caused + by the parent process changing the default signal mask. + What's new in Sudo 1.7.4p4? * A potential security issue has been fixed with respect to the handling