add a git-buildpackage configuration file

[debian/sudo] / visudo.man.in

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 .\" Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force
 .\" Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number F39502-99-1-0512.
 .\" 
-.\" $Sudo: visudo.man.in,v 1.20.2.19 2008/03/05 13:05:05 millert Exp $
+.\" $Sudo: visudo.man.in,v 1.20.2.20 2008/03/23 19:43:51 millert Exp $
 .\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man v1.37, Pod::Parser v1.32
 .\"
 .\" Standard preamble:
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "VISUDO @mansectsu@"
-.TH VISUDO @mansectsu@ "February 19, 2008" "1.6.9p14" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"
+.TH VISUDO @mansectsu@ "March 23, 2008" "1.6.9p15" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS"
 .SH "NAME"
 visudo \- edit the sudoers file
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
@@ -165,15 +165,19 @@ edited you will receive a message to try again later.
 .PP
 There is a hard-coded list of editors that \fBvisudo\fR will use set
 at compile-time that may be overridden via the \fIeditor\fR \fIsudoers\fR
-\&\f(CW\*(C`Default\*(C'\fR variable.  This list defaults to the path to \fIvi\fR\|(1) on
-your system, as determined by the \fIconfigure\fR script.  Normally,
-\&\fBvisudo\fR does not honor the \f(CW\*(C`VISUAL\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`EDITOR\*(C'\fR environment
+\&\f(CW\*(C`Default\*(C'\fR variable.  
+On Debian systems, this list defaults to /usr/bin/editor, which is meant to
+be a system-wide default editor chosen through the alternatives system.
+Normally, \&\fBvisudo\fR does not honor the \f(CW\*(C`VISUAL\*(C'\fR or 
+\f(CW\*(C`EDITOR\*(C'\fR environment
 variables unless they contain an editor in the aforementioned editors
 list.  However, if \fBvisudo\fR is configured with the \fI\-\-with\-enveditor\fR
 flag or the \fIenv_editor\fR \f(CW\*(C`Default\*(C'\fR variable is set in \fIsudoers\fR,
 \&\fBvisudo\fR will use any the editor defines by \f(CW\*(C`VISUAL\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`EDITOR\*(C'\fR.
 Note that this can be a security hole since it allows the user to
 execute any program they wish simply by setting \f(CW\*(C`VISUAL\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`EDITOR\*(C'\fR.
+Despite this potential risk, sudo on Debian is compiled with the
+\fI\-\-with\-enveditor\fR flag.
 .PP
 \&\fBvisudo\fR parses the \fIsudoers\fR file after the edit and will
 not save the changes if there is a syntax error.  Upon finding