From 41da9684197b83c165236589afd87e28ea44eff8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:06:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify ttyname changes. --HG-- branch : 1.8 --- NEWS | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 58e59e0f6..05226c70c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.6p6? * On systems where the controlling tty can be determined via /proc - or sysctl(), do not fall back to using ttyname() if there is no - controlling tty. + or sysctl(), sudo will no longer fall back to using ttyname() + if the process has no controlling tty. This prevents sudo from + using a non-controlling tty for logging and time stamp purposes. What's new in Sudo 1.8.6p5? -- 2.40.0