[Bug 1741398] Re: Commented line in sudoers file breaks sudo

2018-01-05 Thread Plutocrat
Wow, OK apologies for wasting everyone's time in that case but I have to say that its pretty confusing. Even within the sudoers file there are comments prefixed by a hash. But if your comment happens to start with #include it magically becomes active. I now understand this is the intended

[Bug 1741398] Re: Commented line in sudoers file breaks sudo

2018-01-05 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, Thanks for reporting this issue, but that is not a comment at all. >From the sudoers man page: It is possible to include other sudoers files from within the sudoers file currently being parsed using the #include and #includedir direcā€ tives. While # is used in some

[Bug 1741398] Re: Commented line in sudoers file breaks sudo

2018-01-04 Thread Plutocrat
cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS" Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/501204 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is