Bug 247776 – app-admin/sudo-1.6.9_p17 update overwrites sudoers file

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description bart9h 2008-11-20 15:45:53 UTC]

After a "emerge world" that upgraded sudo to 1.6.9_p17, I can't sudo anymore.
Looks like the /etc/sudoers file has been overwritten, and my configuration was lost.  sudo says I'm not even in the sudoers file.


(sad part is I don't remember the root password :)

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-11-20 16:09:11 UTC]

Hmm I'm quite sure that it should be config protected. Zac, do you have any ideas whether something might cause this?

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2008-11-20 17:54:40 UTC]

I CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK had been configured to contain '/etc' then that would cause it. Please post emerge --info output (shows CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK settings).

[Comment 3 bart9h 2008-11-20 23:49:52 UTC]

Created attachment 172574 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2008-11-21 01:40:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=172574) [edit]
> emerge --info
> 

See, CONFIG_PROTECT is empty. Maybe you have CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" set in make.conf or in your environment. That's bad.

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2008-11-21 23:23:44 UTC]

In svn r12022 I've added a warning message that emerge will show if CONFIG_PROTECT is empty for some reason.

[Comment 6 bart9h 2008-11-21 23:45:18 UTC]

This is weird:

$ emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT=
CONFIG_PROTECT=""
$ cat /etc/make.conf | grep CONFIG_PROTECT=
CONFIG_PROTECT="-*"
$

[Comment 7 bart9h 2008-11-21 23:46:30 UTC]

No, it's not.

I misunderstood it, sorry.

[Comment 8 Zac Medico 2008-11-22 05:56:39 UTC]

The warning message is in 2.2_rc15.