Merge commit 'upstream/1.7.0'

[debian/sudo] / sudo.man.in

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--- a/sudo.man.in
+++ b/sudo.man.in
@@ -532,8 +532,8 @@ and, as such, it is not possible for \fBsudo\fR to preserve them.
 To prevent command spoofing, \fBsudo\fR checks \*(L".\*(R" and "" (both denoting
 current directory) last when searching for a command in the user's
 \&\s-1PATH\s0 (if one or both are in the \s-1PATH\s0).  Note, however, that the
-actual \f(CW\*(C`PATH\*(C'\fR environment variable is \fInot\fR modified and is passed
-unchanged to the program that \fBsudo\fR executes.
+\&\f(CW\*(C`PATH\*(C'\fR environment variable is further modified in Debian because of
+the use of the \fI\s-1SECURE_PATH\s0\fR build option.
 .PP
 \&\fBsudo\fR will check the ownership of its timestamp directory
 (\fI@timedir@\fR by default) and ignore the directory's contents if
@@ -685,6 +685,10 @@ to make the \f(CW\*(C`cd\*(C'\fR and file redirection work.
 \&\fIgrep\fR\|(1), \fIsu\fR\|(1), \fIstat\fR\|(2),
 @LCMAN@\&\fIlogin_cap\fR\|(3),
 \&\fIpasswd\fR\|(@mansectform@), \fIsudoers\fR\|(5), \fIvisudo\fR\|(@mansectsu@)
+.PP
+The file /usr/share/doc/sudo/OPTIONS describes the options used for building
+the Debian version of sudo, some of which change default behaviors documented
+elsewhere in this document.
 .SH "AUTHORS"
 .IX Header "AUTHORS"
 Many people have worked on \fBsudo\fR over the years; this