Bug 406259 – app-admin/sudo - Typo in sudoers man page: "user name" instead of "username"

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Antonio Regidor Garcia 2012-02-29 09:33:58 UTC]

Hi,

I use sudo 1.8.3_p2

The sudoers man page contains this definition in EBNF:

User ::= '!'* user name |
         '!'* #uid |
         '!'* %group |
         '!'* %#gid |
         '!'* +netgroup |
         '!'* %:nonunix_group |
         '!'* %:#nonunix_gid |
         '!'* User_Alias

It should be:

User ::= '!'* username |
         '!'* #uid |
         '!'* %group |
         '!'* %#gid |
         '!'* +netgroup |
         '!'* %:nonunix_group |
         '!'* %:#nonunix_gid |
         '!'* User_Alias

i.e., "user name" must be one word. Otherwise, it would represent 2 non-terminals in EBNF.

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2012-05-16 15:24:58 UTC]

Please report this upstream.