Ubuntu
casper package

Persistent mode appends sudoers on each boot

Bug #175159 reported by era on 2007-12-09

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	casper (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: casper

Gutsy persistent live USB stick here.

I noticed that the /etc/sudoers file on the casper-rw partition appears to be amended on each boot. I removed some fifteen progressively shorter instances of "NOPASSWD: NOPASSWD: NOPASSWD: ALL" from mine, but it's growing again.

I only noticed because something had added parts of some log file to my /etc/sudoers and when I trimmed those, I also took out a large amount of duplicated chaff.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/casper

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era (era) wrote on 2007-12-09:

Example /etc/sudoers; note second-to last entry duplicates last, with extra NOPASSWD: Edit (622 bytes, text/plain)

Oh yeah, as usual, sorry if casper is not the correct package for this.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2007-12-10:

Thanks for your report; I've committed a fix for Hardy.

Changed in casper:
assignee:	nobody → kamion
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2007-12-19:

casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Tollef Fog Heen ]
  * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
    annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
    a system. LP: #150188

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
    "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
  * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
    physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).

-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000