[pacman-dev] [PATCH 10/11] makepkg: do not ask sudo password twice

[Allan McRae]

On 18/06/10 00:45, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Andres P<aepd87 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>>> I think I have found the issue here.   We obviously have a NOPASSWD entry in
>>> our sudoers file so "sudo -l" does not require a password.
>>>
>>> So the bug is confirmed.  However the fix is not fully functional as if I
>>> have sudo installed but can not use it for pacman, then I can no longer fall
>>> back to using "su -c".  I'd choose excess password typing over functionality
>>> loss.
>>>
>> Eureka! I was just about to mail the sudo maintainer.
>
> I'm terribly confused still.
>
> $ sudo cat /etc/sudoers
> Password:
>
> Defaults editor = /usr/bin/vim:/usr/bin/vi
>
> root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
> %wheel  ALL=(ALL) ALL
> dmcgee  ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/vpnc, /usr/sbin/vpnc-disconnect
> dmcgee  ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/openconnect
>
> I don't see any exemption for `sudo -l` in there, but it never prompts
> me for a passwd (even if adding those timeout defaults). Or is it just
> the presence of any NOPASSWD entry at all? If that is the case, that
> seems downright silly...

It is the presence of ANY entry...  see the "listpw" section of "man 
sudoers"

Allan