Package: sudo Version: 1.6.8p7-1.1 Severity: normal When sudoedit is invoked on a non-existent file, that file is created with the gid of the invoking user, as can be seen in the following session:
$ ls -l /etc/nonexistent ls: /etc/nonexistent: No such file or directory $ sudoedit /etc/nonexistent Password: Waiting for Emacs...Done $ ls -l /etc/nonexistent -rw-r--r-- 1 root sven 2 Jun 25 07:58 /etc/nonexistent $ This is probably not what most people want and unintentional, the gid of the new file should be 0. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.31 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages sudo depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
