On 10/25/22 9:04 PM, Ramon Fischer wrote:
I do not think, that this is a bug, since it is the default file, which should not be edited by the user.
I *STRONGLY* /OBJECT/ to the notion that users should not edit configuration files.
By design, that's the very purpose of the configuration file, for users to edit them to be what they want them to be.
The concept of "don't edit configuration files" seems diametrically opposed to the idea of Gentoo as I understand it. Namely, /you/ build /your/ system to behave the way that /you/ want it to.
All changes should be done in "/etc/sudoers.d/" to avoid such cases.
Then why in the world does the /default/ file, as installed by Gentoo, include directions to edit the the file?!?!?!
Aside: Someone recently posted a comment to the sudo users mailing list (exact name escapes me) wherein their security policy prohibited @includedir explicitly because of the capability that adding a file to such included directories inherently enabled sudo access -or- caused sudo to fail secure and perform a Denial of Service. They were required to use individual @include directives.
IMHO telling a Gentoo user not to modify a file in /etc takes hutzpah. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
