Imported Debian patch 1.6.9p10-1

[debian/sudo] / sudo.man.in

diff --git a/sudo.man.in b/sudo.man.in
index 5738bbbdc6f3fdc7f9d6f8c9be4b47a21147f7f2..d11a0b386a499b973720e4e1408c9cd68c19505b 100644 (file)
--- a/sudo.man.in
+++ b/sudo.man.in
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 .\" Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force
 .\" Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number F39502-99-1-0512.
 .\" 
-.\" $Sudo: sudo.man.in,v 1.29.2.16 2007/12/03 10:27:12 millert Exp $
+.\" $Sudo: sudo.man.in,v 1.29.2.17 2007/12/17 22:11:10 millert Exp $
 .\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man v1.37, Pod::Parser v1.32
 .\"
 .\" Standard preamble:
@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@
 ..
 .\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings.  \*(-- will
 .\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left
-.\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote.  | will give a
-.\" real vertical bar.  \*(C+ will give a nicer C++.  Capital omega is used to
-.\" do unbreakable dashes and therefore won't be available.  \*(C` and \*(C'
-.\" expand to `' in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>.
-.tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr
+.\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote.  \*(C+ will
+.\" give a nicer C++.  Capital omega is used to do unbreakable dashes and
+.\" therefore won't be available.  \*(C` and \*(C' expand to `' in nroff,
+.\" nothing in troff, for use with C<>.
+.tr \(*W-
 .ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p'
 .ie n \{\
 .    ds -- \(*W-
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "SUDO @mansectsu@"
-.TH SUDO @mansectsu@ "December  3, 2007" "1.6.9p8" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"
+.TH SUDO @mansectsu@ "December 17, 2007" "1.6.9p10" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"
 .SH "NAME"
 sudo, sudoedit \- execute a command as another user
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
@@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ 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
@@ -561,19 +561,19 @@ To list the home directory of user yazza on a machine where the
 file system holding ~yazza is not exported as root:
 .PP
 .Vb 1
-\& $ sudo -u yazza ls ~yazza
+\& $ sudo \-u yazza ls ~yazza
 .Ve
 .PP
 To edit the \fIindex.html\fR file as user www:
 .PP
 .Vb 1
-\& $ sudo -u www vi ~www/htdocs/index.html
+\& $ sudo \-u www vi ~www/htdocs/index.html
 .Ve
 .PP
 To shutdown a machine:
 .PP
 .Vb 1
-\& $ sudo shutdown -r +15 "quick reboot"
+\& $ sudo shutdown \-r +15 "quick reboot"
 .Ve
 .PP
 To make a usage listing of the directories in the /home
@@ -581,12 +581,16 @@ partition.  Note that this runs the commands in a sub-shell
 to make the \f(CW\*(C`cd\*(C'\fR and file redirection work.
 .PP
 .Vb 1
-\& $ sudo sh -c "cd /home ; du -s * | sort -rn > USAGE"
+\& $ sudo sh \-c "cd /home ; du \-s * | sort \-rn > USAGE"
 .Ve
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .IX Header "SEE ALSO"
 \&\fIgrep\fR\|(1), \fIsu\fR\|(1), \fIstat\fR\|(2), \fIlogin_cap\fR\|(3), \fIpasswd\fR\|(@mansectform@),
 \&\fIsudoers\fR\|(@mansectform@), \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