On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:52:09AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > On 25/09/2023 20:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Given the presence of an /etc/sudoers.dpkg-dist file on my system, > > which does in fact contain this: > > > > # This fixes CVE-2005-4890 and possibly breaks some versions of kdesu > > # (#1011624, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452532) > > Defaults use_pty > > > > it looks like you've solved *most* of the mystery. > > But @Greg, if you have "Defaults use_pty" why haven't you been getting > the same instant aborts that I was?
Because it's NOT in /etc/sudoers. It's in /etc/sudoers.dpkg-dist which is what WOULD have been installed if I had chosen to overwrite my existing conffile with the new one. But I didn't.