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SUDO(8) BSD System Manager’s Manual SUDO(8)

NAME

sudo, sudoedit âАФ execute a command as another user

SYNOPSIS

     sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
     sudo -v [-ABknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
     sudo -l [-ABknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user] [command]
     sudo [-ABbEHnPS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-r role] [-t type] [-T timeout] [-u user] [VAR=value]
          [-i | -s] [command]
     sudoedit [-ABknS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-r role] [-t type] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...

DESCRIPTION

     sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified by the security policy.  The invoking user's real
     (not effective) user-ID is used to determine the user name with which to query the security policy.

     sudo supports a plugin architecture for security policies and input/output logging.  Third parties can develop and distribute their own policy and
     I/O logging plugins to work seamlessly with the sudo front end.  The default security policy is sudoers, which is configured via the file
     /etc/sudoers, or via LDAP.  See the Plugins section for more information.

     The security policy determines what privileges, if any, a user has to run sudo.  The policy may require that users authenticate themselves with a
     password or another authentication mechanism.  If authentication is required, sudo will exit if the user's password is not entered within a configâАР
     urable time limit.  This limit is policy-specific; the default password prompt timeout for the sudoers security policy is 0 minutes.

     Security policies may support credential caching to allow the user to run sudo again for a period of time without requiring authentication.  By deâАР
     fault, the sudoers policy caches credentials on a per-terminal basis for 15 minutes.  See the timestamp_type and timestamp_timeout options in
     sudoers(5) for more information.  By running sudo with the -v option, a user can update the cached credentials without running a command.

     On systems where sudo is the primary method of gaining superuser privileges, it is imperative to avoid syntax errors in the security policy configâАР
     uration files.  For the default security policy, sudoers(5), changes to the configuration files should be made using the visudo(8) utility which
     will ensure that no syntax errors are introduced.

     When invoked as sudoedit, the -e option (described below), is implied.

     Security policies may log successful and failed attempts to use sudo.  If an I/O plugin is configured, the running command's input and output may
     be logged as well.

     The options are as follows:

     -A, --askpass
                 Normally, if sudo requires a password, it will read it from the user's terminal.  If the -A (askpass) option is specified, a (possibly
                 graphical) helper program is executed to read the user's password and output the password to the standard output.  If the SUDO_ASKPASS
                 environment variable is set, it specifies the path to the helper program.  Otherwise, if sudo.conf(5) contains a line specifying the
                 askpass program, that value will be used.  For example:

                     # Path to askpass helper program
                     Path askpass /usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass

                 If no askpass program is available, sudo will exit with an error.

     -B, --bell  Ring the bell as part of the password promp when a terminal is present.  This option has no effect if an askpass program is used.

     -b, --background
                 Run the given command in the background.  Note that it is not possible to use shell job control to manipulate background processes
                 started by sudo.  Most interactive commands will fail to work properly in background mode.

     -C num, --close-from=num
                 Close all file descriptors greater than or equal to num before executing a command.  Values less than three are not permitted.  By deâАР
                 fault, sudo will close all open file descriptors other than standard input, standard output and standard error when executing a comâАР
                 mand.  The security policy may restrict the user's ability to use this option.  The sudoers policy only permits use of the -C option
                 when the administrator has enabled the closefrom_override option.

     -D directory, --chdir=directory
                 Run the command in the specified directory instead of the current working directory.  The security policy may return an error if the
                 user does not have permission to specify the working directory.

     -E, --preserve-env
                 Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to preserve their existing environment variables.  The security policy may return
                 an error if the user does not have permission to preserve the environment.

     --preserve-env=list
                 Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to add the comma-separated list of environment variables to those preserved from
                 the user's environment.  The security policy may return an error if the user does not have permission to preserve the environment.
                 This option may be specified multiple times.

     -e, --edit  Edit one or more files instead of running a command.  In lieu of a path name, the string "sudoedit" is used when consulting the secuâАР
                 rity policy.  If the user is authorized by the policy, the following steps are taken:

                 1.   Temporary copies are made of the files to be edited with the owner set to the invoking user.

                 2.   The editor specified by the policy is run to edit the temporary files.  The sudoers policy uses the SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL and EDITOR
                      environment variables (in that order).  If none of SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR are set, the first program listed in the editor
                      sudoers(5) option is used.

                 3.   If they have been modified, the temporary files are copied back to their original location and the temporary versions are removed.

                 To help prevent the editing of unauthorized files, the following restrictions are enforced unless explicitly allowed by the security
                 policy:

                 âА¢  Symbolic links may not be edited (version 1.8.15 and higher).

                 âА¢  Symbolic links along the path to be edited are not followed when the parent directory is writable by the invoking user unless that
                    user is root (version 1.8.16 and higher).

                 âА¢  Files located in a directory that is writable by the invoking user may not be edited unless that user is root (version 1.8.16 and
                    higher).

                 Users are never allowed to edit device special files.

                 If the specified file does not exist, it will be created.  Note that unlike most commands run by sudo, the editor is run with the inâАР
                 voking user's environment unmodified.  If the temporary file becomes empty after editing, the user will be prompted before it is inâАР
                 stalled.  If, for some reason, sudo is unable to update a file with its edited version, the user will receive a warning and the edited
                 copy will remain in a temporary file.

     -g group, --group=group
                 Run the command with the primary group set to group instead of the primary group specified by the target user's password database enâАР
                 try.  The group may be either a group name or a numeric group-ID (GID) prefixed with the âА~#âАTM character (e.g., #0 for GID 0).  When runâАР
                 ning a command as a GID, many shells require that the âА~#âАTM be escaped with a backslash (âА~\âАTM).  If no -u option is specified, the command
                 will be run as the invoking user.  In either case, the primary group will be set to group.  The sudoers policy permits any of the tarâАР
                 get user's groups to be specified via the -g option as long as the -P option is not in use.

     -H, --set-home
                 Request that the security policy set the HOME environment variable to the home directory specified by the target user's password dataâАР
                 base entry.  Depending on the policy, this may be the default behavior.

     -h, --help  Display a short help message to the standard output and exit.

     -h host, --host=host
                 Run the command on the specified host if the security policy plugin supports remote commands.  Note that the sudoers plugin does not
                 currently support running remote commands.  This may also be used in conjunction with the -l option to list a user's privileges for the
                 remote host.

     -i, --login
                 Run the shell specified by the target user's password database entry as a login shell.  This means that login-specific resource files
                 such as .profile, .bash_profile or .login will be read by the shell.  If a command is specified, it is passed to the shell for execuâАР
                 tion via the shell's -c option.  If no command is specified, an interactive shell is executed.  sudo attempts to change to that user's
                 home directory before running the shell.  The command is run with an environment similar to the one a user would receive at log in.
                 Note that most shells behave differently when a command is specified as compared to an interactive session; consult the shell's manual
                 for details.  The Command environment section in the sudoers(5) manual documents how the -i option affects the environment in which a
                 command is run when the sudoers policy is in use.

     -K, --remove-timestamp
                 Similar to the -k option, except that it removes the user's cached credentials entirely and may not be used in conjunction with a comâАР
                 mand or other option.  This option does not require a password.  Not all security policies support credential caching.

     -k, --reset-timestamp
                 When used without a command, invalidates the user's cached credentials.  In other words, the next time sudo is run a password will be
                 required.  This option does not require a password and was added to allow a user to revoke sudo permissions from a .logout file.

                 When used in conjunction with a command or an option that may require a password, this option will cause sudo to ignore the user's
                 cached credentials.  As a result, sudo will prompt for a password (if one is required by the security policy) and will not update the
                 user's cached credentials.

                 Not all security policies support credential caching.

     -l, --list  If no command is specified, list the allowed (and forbidden) commands for the invoking user (or the user specified by the -U option) on
                 the current host.  A longer list format is used if this option is specified multiple times and the security policy supports a verbose
                 output format.

                 If a command is specified and is permitted by the security policy, the fully-qualified path to the command is displayed along with any
                 command line arguments.  If a command is specified but not allowed by the policy, sudo will exit with a status value of 1.

     -n, --non-interactive
                 Avoid prompting the user for input of any kind.  If a password is required for the command to run, sudo will display an error message
                 and exit.

     -P, --preserve-groups
                 Preserve the invoking user's group vector unaltered.  By default, the sudoers policy will initialize the group vector to the list of
                 groups the target user is a member of.  The real and effective group-IDs, however, are still set to match the target user.

     -p prompt, --prompt=prompt
                 Use a custom password prompt with optional escape sequences.  The following percent (âА~%âАTM) escape sequences are supported by the sudoers
                 policy:

                 %H  expanded to the host name including the domain name (on if the machine's host name is fully qualified or the fqdn option is set in
                     sudoers(5))

                 %h  expanded to the local host name without the domain name

                 %p  expanded to the name of the user whose password is being requested (respects the rootpw, targetpw, and runaspw flags in sudoers(5))

                 %U  expanded to the login name of the user the command will be run as (defaults to root unless the -u option is also specified)

                 %u  expanded to the invoking user's login name

                 %%  two consecutive âА~%âАTM characters are collapsed into a single âА~%âАTM character

                 The custom prompt will override the default prompt specified by either the security policy or the SUDO_PROMPT environment variable.  On
                 systems that use PAM, the custom prompt will also override the prompt specified by a PAM module unless the passprompt_override flag is
                 disabled in sudoers.

     -R directory, --chroot=directory
                 Change to the specified root directory (see chroot(8)) before running the command.  The security policy may return an error if the user
                 does not have permission to specify the root directory.

     -r role, --role=role
                 Run the command with an SELinux security context that includes the specified role.

     -S, --stdin
                 Write the prompt to the standard error and read the password from the standard input instead of using the terminal device.

     -s, --shell
                 Run the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable if it is set or the shell specified by the invoking user's password database
                 entry.  If a command is specified, it is passed to the shell for execution via the shell's -c option.  If no command is specified, an
                 interactive shell is executed.  Note that most shells behave differently when a command is specified as compared to an interactive sesâАР
                 sion; consult the shell's manual for details.

     -t type, --type=type
                 Run the command with an SELinux security context that includes the specified type.  If no type is specified, the default type is deâАР
                 rived from the role.

     -U user, --other-user=user
                 Used in conjunction with the -l option to list the privileges for user instead of for the invoking user.  The security policy may reâАР
                 strict listing other users' privileges.  The sudoers policy only allows root or a user with the ALL privilege on the current host to
                 use this option.

     -T timeout, --command-timeout=timeout
                 Used to set a timeout for the command.  If the timeout expires before the command has exited, the command will be terminated.  The seâАР
                 curity policy may restrict the ability to set command timeouts.  The sudoers policy requires that user-specified timeouts be explicitly
                 enabled.

     -u user, --user=user
                 Run the command as a user other than the default target user (usually root).  The user may be either a user name or a numeric user-ID
                 (UID) prefixed with the âА~#âАTM character (e.g., #0 for UID 0).  When running commands as a UID, many shells require that the âА~#âАTM be esâАР
                 caped with a backslash (âА~\âАTM).  Some security policies may restrict UIDs to those listed in the password database.  The sudoers policy
                 allows UIDs that are not in the password database as long as the targetpw option is not set.  Other security policies may not support
                 this.

     -V, --version
                 Print the sudo version string as well as the version string of the security policy plugin and any I/O plugins.  If the invoking user is
                 already root the -V option will display the arguments passed to configure when sudo was built and plugins may display more verbose inâАР
                 formation such as default options.

     -v, --validate
                 Update the user's cached credentials, authenticating the user if necessary.  For the sudoers plugin, this extends the sudo timeout for
                 another 15 minutes by default, but does not run a command.  Not all security policies support cached credentials.

     --          The -- option indicates that sudo should stop processing command line arguments.

     Options that take a value may only be specified once unless otherwise indicated in the description.  This is to help guard against problems caused
     by poorly written scripts that invoke sudo with user-controlled input.

     Environment variables to be set for the command may also be passed on the command line in the form of VAR=value, e.g.,
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pkg/lib.  Variables passed on the command line are subject to restrictions imposed by the security policy plugin.  The
     sudoers policy subjects variables passed on the command line to the same restrictions as normal environment variables with one important exception.
     If the setenv option is set in sudoers, the command to be run has the SETENV tag set or the command matched is ALL, the user may set variables that
     would otherwise be forbidden.  See sudoers(5) for more information.

COMMAND EXECUTION

     When sudo executes a command, the security policy specifies the execution environment for the command.  Typically, the real and effective user and
     group and IDs are set to match those of the target user, as specified in the password database, and the group vector is initialized based on the
     group database (unless the -P option was specified).

     The following parameters may be specified by security policy:

     âА¢  real and effective user-ID

     âА¢  real and effective group-ID

     âА¢  supplementary group-IDs

     âА¢  the environment list

     âА¢  current working directory

     âА¢  file creation mode mask (umask)

     âА¢  SELinux role and type

     âА¢  scheduling priority (aka nice value)

Process model
There are two distinct ways sudo can run a command.

     If an I/O logging plugin is configured or if the security policy explicitly requests it, a new pseudo-terminal (âАЬptyâАЭ) is allocated and fork(2) is
     used to create a second sudo process, referred to as the monitor.  The monitor creates a new terminal session with itself as the leader and the pty
     as its controlling terminal, calls fork(2), sets up the execution environment as described above, and then uses the execve(2) system call to run
     the command in the child process.  The monitor exists to relay job control signals between the user's existing terminal and the pty the command is
     being run in.  This makes it possible to suspend and resume the command.  Without the monitor, the command would be in what POSIX terms an
     âАЬorphaned process groupâАЭ and it would not receive any job control signals from the kernel.  When the command exits or is terminated by a signal,
     the monitor passes the command's exit status to the main sudo process and exits.  After receiving the command's exit status, the main sudo passes
     the command's exit status to the security policy's close function and exits.

     If no pty is used, sudo calls fork(2), sets up the execution environment as described above, and uses the execve(2) system call to run the command
     in the child process.  The main sudo process waits until the command has completed, then passes the command's exit status to the security policy's
     close function and exits.  As a special case, if the policy plugin does not define a close function, sudo will execute the command directly instead
     of calling fork(2) first.  The sudoers policy plugin will only define a close function when I/O logging is enabled, a pty is required, or the
     pam_session or pam_setcred options are enabled.  Note that pam_session and pam_setcred are enabled by default on systems using PAM.

     On systems that use PAM, the security policy's close function is responsible for closing the PAM session.  It may also log the command's exit staâАР
     tus.

Signal handling

     When the command is run as a child of the sudo process, sudo will relay signals it receives to the command.  The SIGINT and SIGQUIT signals are
     only relayed when the command is being run in a new pty or when the signal was sent by a user process, not the kernel.  This prevents the command
     from receiving SIGINT twice each time the user enters control-C.  Some signals, such as SIGSTOP and SIGKILL, cannot be caught and thus will not be
     relayed to the command.  As a general rule, SIGTSTP should be used instead of SIGSTOP when you wish to suspend a command being run by sudo.

     As a special case, sudo will not relay signals that were sent by the command it is running.  This prevents the command from accidentally killing
     itself.  On some systems, the reboot(8) command sends SIGTERM to all non-system processes other than itself before rebooting the system.  This preâАР
     vents sudo from relaying the SIGTERM signal it received back to reboot(8), which might then exit before the system was actually rebooted, leaving
     it in a half-dead state similar to single user mode.  Note, however, that this check only applies to the command run by sudo and not any other proâАР
     cesses that the command may create.  As a result, running a script that calls reboot(8) or shutdown(8) via sudo may cause the system to end up in
     this undefined state unless the reboot(8) or shutdown(8) are run using the exec() family of functions instead of system() (which interposes a shell
     between the command and the calling process).

     If no I/O logging plugins are loaded and the policy plugin has not defined a close() function, set a command timeout or required that the command
     be run in a new pty, sudo may execute the command directly instead of running it as a child process.

Plugins

     Plugins may be specified via Plugin directives in the sudo.conf(5) file.  They may be loaded as dynamic shared objects (on systems that support
     them), or compiled directly into the sudo binary.  If no sudo.conf(5) file is present, or if it doesn't contain any Plugin lines, sudo will use
     sudoers(5) for the policy, auditing and I/O logging plugins.  See the sudo.conf(5) manual for details of the /etc/sudo.conf file and the
     sudo_plugin(5) manual for more information about the sudo plugin architecture.

EXIT VALUE

     Upon successful execution of a command, the exit status from sudo will be the exit status of the program that was executed.  If the command termiâАР
     nated due to receipt of a signal, sudo will send itself the same signal that terminated the command.

     If the -l option was specified without a command, sudo will exit with a value of 0 if the user is allowed to run sudo and they authenticated sucâАР
     cessfully (as required by the security policy).  If a command is specified with the -l option, the exit value will only be 0 if the command is perâАР
     mitted by the security policy, otherwise it will be 1.

     If there is an authentication failure, a configuration/permission problem or if the given command cannot be executed, sudo exits with a value of 1.
     In the latter case, the error string is printed to the standard error.  If sudo cannot stat(2) one or more entries in the user's PATH, an error is
     printed to the standard error.  (If the directory does not exist or if it is not really a directory, the entry is ignored and no error is printed.)
     This should not happen under normal circumstances.  The most common reason for stat(2) to return âАЬpermission deniedâАЭ is if you are running an autoâАР
     mounter and one of the directories in your PATH is on a machine that is currently unreachable.

SECURITY NOTES

sudo tries to be safe when executing external commands.

     To prevent command spoofing, sudo checks "." and "" (both denoting current directory) last when searching for a command in the user's PATH (if one
     or both are in the PATH).  Note, however, that the actual PATH environment variable is not modified and is passed unchanged to the program that
     sudo executes.

     Users should never be granted sudo privileges to execute files that are writable by the user or that reside in a directory that is writable by the
     user.  If the user can modify or replace the command there is no way to limit what additional commands they can run.

     Please note that sudo will normally only log the command it explicitly runs.  If a user runs a command such as sudo su or sudo sh, subsequent comâАР
     mands run from that shell are not subject to sudo's security policy.  The same is true for commands that offer shell escapes (including most ediâАР
     tors).  If I/O logging is enabled, subsequent commands will have their input and/or output logged, but there will not be traditional logs for those
     commands.  Because of this, care must be taken when giving users access to commands via sudo to verify that the command does not inadvertently give
     the user an effective root shell.  For more information, please see the Preventing shell escapes section in sudoers(5).

     To prevent the disclosure of potentially sensitive information, sudo disables core dumps by default while it is executing (they are re-enabled for
     the command that is run).  This historical practice dates from a time when most operating systems allowed set-user-ID processes to dump core by deâАР
     fault.  To aid in debugging sudo crashes, you may wish to re-enable core dumps by setting âАЬdisable_coredumpâАЭ to false in the sudo.conf(5) file as
     follows:

           Set disable_coredump false

     See the sudo.conf(5) manual for more information.

ENVIRONMENT

sudo utilizes the following environment variables. The security policy has control over the actual content of the command’s environment.

EDITOR Default editor to use in -e (sudoedit) mode if neither SUDO_EDITOR nor VISUAL is set.

     MAIL             Set to the mail spool of the target user when the -i option is specified or when env_reset is enabled in sudoers (unless MAIL is
                      present in the env_keep list).

     HOME             Set to the home directory of the target user when the -i or -H options are specified, when the -s option is specified and set_home
                      is set in sudoers, when always_set_home is enabled in sudoers, or when env_reset is enabled in sudoers and HOME is not present in
                      the env_keep list.

     LOGNAME          Set to the login name of the target user when the -i option is specified, when the set_logname option is enabled in sudoers or
                      when the env_reset option is enabled in sudoers (unless LOGNAME is present in the env_keep list).

     PATH             May be overridden by the security policy.

     SHELL            Used to determine shell to run with -s option.

     SUDO_ASKPASS     Specifies the path to a helper program used to read the password if no terminal is available or if the -A option is specified.

     SUDO_COMMAND     Set to the command run by sudo, including command line arguments.  The command line arguments are truncated at 4096 characters to
                      prevent a potential execution error.

     SUDO_EDITOR      Default editor to use in -e (sudoedit) mode.

     SUDO_GID         Set to the group-ID of the user who invoked sudo.

     SUDO_PROMPT      Used as the default password prompt unless the -p option was specified.

     SUDO_PS1         If set, PS1 will be set to its value for the program being run.

     SUDO_UID         Set to the user-ID of the user who invoked sudo.

     SUDO_USER        Set to the login name of the user who invoked sudo.

     USER             Set to the same value as LOGNAME, described above.

     VISUAL           Default editor to use in -e (sudoedit) mode if SUDO_EDITOR is not set.

FILES

/etc/sudo.conf sudo front end configuration

EXAMPLES

Note: the following examples assume a properly configured security policy.

To get a file listing of an unreadable directory:

$ sudo ls /usr/local/protected

To list the home directory of user yaz on a machine where the file system holding ~yaz is not exported as root:

$ sudo -u yaz ls ~yaz

To edit the index.html file as user www:

$ sudoedit -u www ~www/htdocs/index.html

To view system logs only accessible to root and users in the adm group:

$ sudo -g adm more /var/log/syslog

To run an editor as jim with a different primary group:

$ sudoedit -u jim -g audio ~jim/sound.txt

To shut down a machine:

$ sudo shutdown -r +15 “quick reboot”

     To make a usage listing of the directories in the /home partition.  Note that this runs the commands in a sub-shell to make the cd and file rediâАР
     rection work.

           $ sudo sh -c "cd /home ; du -s * | sort -rn > USAGE"

DIAGNOSTICS

Error messages produced by sudo include:

     editing files in a writable directory is not permitted
           By default, sudoedit does not permit editing a file when any of the parent directories are writable by the invoking user.  This avoids a race
           condition that could allow the user to overwrite an arbitrary file.  See the sudoedit_checkdir option in sudoers(5) for more information.

     editing symbolic links is not permitted
           By default, sudoedit does not follow symbolic links when opening files.  See the sudoedit_follow option in sudoers(5) for more information.

     effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?
           sudo was not run with root privileges.  The sudo binary must be owned by the root user and have the set-user-ID bit set.  Also, it must not
           be located on a file system mounted with the âА~nosuidâАTM option or on an NFS file system that maps uid 0 to an unprivileged uid.

     effective uid is not 0, is sudo on a file system with the 'nosuid' option set or an NFS file system without root privileges?
           sudo was not run with root privileges.  The sudo binary has the proper owner and permissions but it still did not run with root privileges.
           The most common reason for this is that the file system the sudo binary is located on is mounted with the âА~nosuidâАTM option or it is an NFS
           file system that maps uid 0 to an unprivileged uid.

     fatal error, unable to load plugins
           An error occurred while loading or initializing the plugins specified in sudo.conf(5).

     invalid environment variable name
           One or more environment variable names specified via the -E option contained an equal sign (âА~=âАTM).  The arguments to the -E option should be
           environment variable names without an associated value.

     no password was provided
           When sudo tried to read the password, it did not receive any characters.  This may happen if no terminal is available (or the -S option is
           specified) and the standard input has been redirected from /dev/null.

     a terminal is required to read the password
           sudo needs to read the password but there is no mechanism available for it to do so.  A terminal is not present to read the password from,
           sudo has not been configured to read from the standard input, the -S option was not used, and no askpass helper has been specified either via
           the sudo.conf(5) file or the SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable.

     no writable temporary directory found
           sudoedit was unable to find a usable temporary directory in which to store its intermediate files.

     sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
           sudo was not run with root privileges.  The sudo binary does not have the correct owner or permissions.  It must be owned by the root user
           and have the set-user-ID bit set.

     sudoedit is not supported on this platform
           It is only possible to run sudoedit on systems that support setting the effective user-ID.

     timed out reading password
           The user did not enter a password before the password timeout (5 minutes by default) expired.

     you do not exist in the passwd database
           Your user-ID does not appear in the system passwd database.

     you may not specify environment variables in edit mode
           It is only possible to specify environment variables when running a command.  When editing a file, the editor is run with the user's environâАР
           ment unmodified.

SEE ALSO

su(1), stat(2), login_cap(3), passwd(5), sudo.conf(5), sudo_plugin(5), sudoers(5), sudoers_timestamp(5), sudoreplay(8), visudo(8)

HISTORY

See the HISTORY file in the sudo distribution (https://www.sudo.ws/history.html) for a brief history of sudo.

AUTHORS

Many people have worked on sudo over the years; this version consists of code written primarily by:

Todd C. Miller

     See the CONTRIBUTORS file in the sudo distribution (https://www.sudo.ws/contributors.html) for an exhaustive list of people who have contributed to
     sudo.

CAVEATS

     There is no easy way to prevent a user from gaining a root shell if that user is allowed to run arbitrary commands via sudo.  Also, many programs
     (such as editors) allow the user to run commands via shell escapes, thus avoiding sudo's checks.  However, on most systems it is possible to preâАР
     vent shell escapes with the sudoers(5) plugin's noexec functionality.

     It is not meaningful to run the cd command directly via sudo, e.g.,

           $ sudo cd /usr/local/protected

     since when the command exits the parent process (your shell) will still be the same.  Please see the EXAMPLES section for more information.

     Running shell scripts via sudo can expose the same kernel bugs that make set-user-ID shell scripts unsafe on some operating systems (if your OS has
     a /dev/fd/ directory, set-user-ID shell scripts are generally safe).

BUGS

If you feel you have found a bug in sudo, please submit a bug report at https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/

SUPPORT

     Limited free support is available via the sudo-users mailing list, see https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users to subscribe or search the
     archives.

DISCLAIMER

     sudo is provided âАЬAS ISâАЭ and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitâАР
     ness for a particular purpose are disclaimed.  See the LICENSE file distributed with sudo or https://www.sudo.ws/license.html for complete details.

Sudo 1.9.5p2                                                        September 1, 2020                                                       Sudo 1.9.5p2

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