sudo

This release adds support for IPv6. It has a fix for the installation path of the sudo_noexec shared object and a change to support compilation on old-style K&R compilers.

This release fixes a bug related to the supplemental group matching introduced in 1.6.9.

This release fixes updating of the saved environment when the environ pointer gets changed by a library.

This release includes a workaround for a bug in some PAM implementations that caused a crash when no TTY was present. It includes a fix for a crash in the error logging function, as well as documentation improvements.

Environment handling changes were made. env_reset is enabled by default, a new -E option was provided for disabling env_reset in allowed by sudoers, and environment variables may be specified on the command line. Sudo now uses the supplemental group vector for matching, which fixes problems with split group file lines and nsswitch.conf. PAM, Kerberos 5, and securid5 fixes were made. NOEXEC now supports AIX 5. LDAP now honors rootbinddn, timelimit, and bind_timelimit in ldap.conf. Visudo supports command line options in the EDITOR environment variable.