add a note about nsswitch.conf entry required for sudo-ldap

[debian/sudo] / sudo.man.in

diff --git a/sudo.man.in b/sudo.man.in
index 23d330f3e204473b1db4f7ad9cb536cc2f6649d5..b4a53ce6150ad26cb12b56e75769ae2d66f93555 100644 (file)
--- a/sudo.man.in
+++ b/sudo.man.in
@@ -18,19 +18,10 @@
 .\" Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force
 .\" Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number F39502-99-1-0512.
 .\" 
-.\" $Sudo: sudo.man.in,v 1.56 2009/06/29 13:36:42 millert Exp $
-.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.16 (Pod::Simple 3.05)
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.22 (Pod::Simple 3.07)
 .\"
 .\" Standard preamble:
 .\" ========================================================================
-.de Sh \" Subsection heading
-.br
-.if t .Sp
-.ne 5
-.PP
-\fB\\$1\fR
-.PP
-..
 .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
 .if t .sp .5v
 .if n .sp
@@ -74,7 +65,7 @@
 .el       .ds Aq '
 .\"
 .\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr for
-.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index
+.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index
 .\" entries marked with X<> in POD.  Of course, you'll have to process the
 .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
 .ie \nF \{\
@@ -153,7 +144,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "SUDO @mansectsu@"
-.TH SUDO @mansectsu@ "June 15, 2009" "1.7.2p1" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"
+.TH SUDO @mansectsu@ "March  3, 2010" "1.7.2p6" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
@@ -442,7 +433,8 @@ password prompt on systems that support \s-1PAM\s0 unless the
 .IP "\-S" 12
 .IX Item "-S"
 The \fB\-S\fR (\fIstdin\fR) option causes \fBsudo\fR to read the password from
-the standard input instead of the terminal device.
+the standard input instead of the terminal device.  The password must
+be followed by a newline character.
 .IP "\-s [command]" 12
 .IX Item "-s [command]"
 The \fB\-s\fR (\fIshell\fR) option runs the shell specified by the \fI\s-1SHELL\s0\fR
@@ -545,8 +537,8 @@ 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
-\&\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.
+actual \f(CW\*(C`PATH\*(C'\fR environment variable is \fInot\fR modified and is passed
+unchanged to the program that \fBsudo\fR executes.
 .PP
 \&\fBsudo\fR will check the ownership of its timestamp directory
 (\fI@timedir@\fR by default) and ignore the directory's contents if
@@ -710,10 +702,6 @@ 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