sudo (1.8.2-1) unstable; urgency=low The sudo package is no longer configured using --with-secure-path. Instead, the provided sudoers file now contains a line declaring 'Defaults secure_path=' with the same path content that was previously hard-coded in the binary. A consequence of this change is that if you do not have such a definition in sudoers, the PATH searched for commands by sudo may be empty. Using explicit paths for each command you want to run with sudo will work well enough to allow the sudoers file to be updated with a suitable entry if one is not already present and you choose to not accept the updated version provided by the package. -- Bdale Garbee Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:33:11 -0600 sudo (1.7.4p4-2) unstable; urgency=low The HOME and MAIL environment variables are now reset based on the target user's password database entry when the env_reset sudoers option is enabled (which is the case in the default configuration). Users wishing to preserve the original values should use a sudoers entry like: Defaults env_keep += HOME to preserve the old value of HOME and Defaults env_keep += MAIL to preserve the old value of MAIL. The change in handling of HOME is known to affect programs like pbuilder. -- Bdale Garbee Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:29:16 -0600 sudo (1.6.8p12-5) unstable; urgency=low The sudo package is no longer configured --with-exempt=sudo. If you depend on members of group sudo being able to run sudo without needing a password, you will need to put "%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" in /etc/sudoers to preserve equivalent functionality. -- Bdale Garbee Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:13:39 -0600