21 Aug 2004 04:33
Sudo version 1.6.8 now available
Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller <at> courtesan.com>
2004-08-21 02:33:30 GMT
2004-08-21 02:33:30 GMT
After a long wait, Sudo version 1.6.8 is now available. It's taken a while but version 1.6.8 includes some exciting new features. It is also the first release for which I am offering commercial support. If your organization uses Sudo please consider purchasing a support contract to help fund addition Sudo development. Please see http://www.sudo.ws/support.html Alternately, you can help out by "purchasing" a copy of Sudo or making a donation at http://www.sudo.ws/purchase.html Sudo is still free software and I intend for it to remain so but as I currently lack regular employment I am asking for help from the Sudo community. Your support will enable me to continue to improve Sudo and complete projects such as a proper user's manual and a major rewrite of large portions of Sudo. Enough of the commercial, now on to the good part... Major changes since Sudo 1.6.7p5: o LDAP support: sudoers info may be stored in LDAP (optionally using TLS). o There is a new -e option to edit files the with uid of the invoking user. This makes it possible to give users to ability to safely edit files without the possibility of editing other files or running commands as the target user. If sudo is run as "sudoedit" the -e flag is implied.(Continue reading)
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