Bug#1061170: sudo: sends mail when aborting

[Marc Haber]

Control: -1 wontfix upstream
thanks

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 07:34:42AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: sudo
> Version: 1.9.5p2-3+deb11u1

Just for the record: This is oldstable, and unlikely a security or an RC
issue. Flagging this as wontfix now.

> When typing “sudo somecommandwithatypo”, pressing Enter, and then
> realising you’d done a typo and hitting ^C to abort, sudo sends an
> eMail that “a password is required” nowadays.
> 
> This is a regression against older versions which did not send an
> eMail in those cases.

It is a behavior change that looks like it was intended by upstream.
sudo is unlikely to change this behavior, especially if we obviously had
two stable releases with the behavior that you are complaining about
now.

Please discuss this with upstream. If they decide to change, Debian
might follow along. I'd really like to see their arguments.

Greetings
Marc

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Bug#1061170: sudo: sends mail when aborting

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: sudo
Version: 1.9.5p2-3+deb11u1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de

When typing “sudo somecommandwithatypo”, pressing Enter, and then
realising you’d done a typo and hitting ^C to abort, sudo sends an
eMail that “a password is required” nowadays.

This is a regression against older versions which did not send an
eMail in those cases.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.8
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 
'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-27-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii  libaudit1   1:3.0-2
ii  libc6   2.31-13+deb11u7
ii  libpam-modules  1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii  libpam0g1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii  libselinux1 3.1-3
ii  lsb-base11.1.0
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2

sudo recommends no packages.

sudo suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sudoers [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers'
/etc/sudoers.d/README [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers.d/README'

-- no debconf information