recommend visudo in README file

diff --git a/debian/README b/debian/README
index 3de537cc56484b2511c7fba82b375d357eb10d2e..b5ed892aaeb47a2ad9eb31d880ddc1a118fb12fe 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/README
+++ b/debian/README
@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@
 # to add the above directive to the end of your /etc/sudoers file to enable 
 # this functionality for existing installations if you wish!
 #
+# Finally, please note that using the visudo command is the recommended way
+# to update sudoers content, since it protects against many failure modes.
+# See the man page for visudo for more information.
+#

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 70f62b4ca8e0ccc9d776a6c47c5b7d587c03efea..f871fcc44d9230067ec944d3a1acc3df973c8e56 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ sudo (1.8.3p1-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * if upgrading from squeeze, and the sudoers file is unmodified, avoid
     the packaging system prompting the user about a change they didn't make
     now that sudoers is a conffile, closes: #612532, #636049
+  * add a recommendation for the use of visudo to the sudoers.d/README file,
+    closes: #648104
 
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:27:33 -0700
+ -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:27:13 -0700
 
 sudo (1.8.3p1-1) unstable; urgency=low