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NAME

     sudoers — default sudo security policy plugin

DESCRIPTION

     The sudoers policy plugin determines a user's sudo privileges.  It is the default sudo
     policy plugin.  The policy is driven by the /etc/sudoers file or, optionally, in LDAP.  The
     policy format is described in detail in the SUDOERS FILE FORMAT section.  For information on
     storing sudoers policy information in LDAP, please see sudoers.ldap(5).

   Configuring sudo.conf for sudoers
     sudo consults the sudo.conf(5) file to determine which plugins to load.  If no sudo.conf(5)
     file is present, or if it contains no Plugin lines, sudoers will be used for auditing,
     policy decisions and I/O logging.  To explicitly configure sudo.conf(5) to use the sudoers
     plugin, the following configuration can be used.

           Plugin sudoers_audit sudoers.so
           Plugin sudoers_policy sudoers.so
           Plugin sudoers_io sudoers.so

     Starting with sudo 1.8.5, it is possible to specify optional arguments to the sudoers plugin
     in the sudo.conf(5) file.  Plugin arguments, if any, should be listed after the path to the
     plugin (i.e., after sudoers.so).  The arguments are only effective for the plugin that opens
     (and parses) the sudoers file.

     For sudo version 1.9.1 and higher, this is the sudoers_audit plugin.  For older versions, it
     is the sudoers_policy plugin.  Multiple arguments may be specified, separated by white
     space.  For example:

           Plugin sudoers_audit sudoers.so sudoers_mode=0400 error_recovery=false

     The following plugin arguments are supported:

     error_recovery=bool
               The error_recovery argument can be used to control whether sudoers should attempt
               to recover from syntax errors in the sudoers file.  If set to true (the default),
               sudoers will try to recover from a syntax error by discarding the portion of the
               line that contains the error until the end of the line.  A value of false will
               disable error recovery.  Prior to version 1.9.3, no error recovery was performed.

     ldap_conf=pathname
               The ldap_conf argument can be used to override the default path to the ldap.conf
               file.

     ldap_secret=pathname
               The ldap_secret argument can be used to override the default path to the
               ldap.secret file.

     sudoers_file=pathname
               The sudoers_file argument can be used to override the default path to the sudoers
               file.

     sudoers_uid=user-ID
               The sudoers_uid argument can be used to override the default owner of the sudoers
               file.  It should be specified as a numeric user-ID.

     sudoers_gid=group-ID
               The sudoers_gid argument can be used to override the default group of the sudoers
               file.  It must be specified as a numeric group-ID (not a group name).

     sudoers_mode=mode
               The sudoers_mode argument can be used to override the default file mode for the
               sudoers file.  It should be specified as an octal value.

     For more information on configuring sudo.conf(5), please refer to its manual.

   User Authentication
     The sudoers security policy requires that most users authenticate themselves before they can
     use sudo.  A password is not required if the invoking user is root, if the target user is
     the same as the invoking user, or if the policy has disabled authentication for the user or
     command.  Unlike su(1), when sudoers requires authentication, it validates the invoking
     user's credentials, not the target user's (or root's) credentials.  This can be changed via
     the rootpw, targetpw and runaspw flags, described later.

     If a user who is not listed in the policy tries to run a command via sudo, mail is sent to
     the proper authorities.  The address used for such mail is configurable via the mailto
     Defaults entry (described later) and defaults to root.

     Note that no mail will be sent if an unauthorized user tries to run sudo with the -l or -v
     option unless there is an authentication error and either the mail_always or mail_badpass
     flags are enabled.  This allows users to determine for themselves whether or not they are
     allowed to use sudo.  By default, all attempts to run sudo (successful or not) are logged,
     regardless of whether or not mail is sent.

     If sudo is run by root and the SUDO_USER environment variable is set, the sudoers policy
     will use this value to determine who the actual user is.  This can be used by a user to log
     commands through sudo even when a root shell has been invoked.  It also allows the -e option
     to remain useful even when invoked via a sudo-run script or program.  Note, however, that
     the sudoers file lookup is still done for root, not the user specified by SUDO_USER.

     sudoers uses per-user time stamp files for credential caching.  Once a user has been
     authenticated, a record is written containing the user-ID that was used to authenticate, the
     terminal session ID, the start time of the session leader (or parent process) and a time
     stamp (using a monotonic clock if one is available).  The user may then use sudo without a
     password for a short period of time (15 minutes unless overridden by the timestamp_timeout
     option).  By default, sudoers uses a separate record for each terminal, which means that a
     user's login sessions are authenticated separately.  The timestamp_type option can be used
     to select the type of time stamp record sudoers will use.

   Logging
     By default, sudoers logs both successful and unsuccessful attempts (as well as errors).  The
     log_allowed and log_denied flags can be used to control this behavior.  Messages can be
     logged to syslog(3), a log file, or both.  The default is to log to syslog(3) but this is
     configurable via the syslog and logfile settings.  See LOG FORMAT for a description of the
     log file format.

     sudoers is also capable of running a command in a pseudo-terminal and logging all input
     and/or output.  The standard input, standard output, and standard error can be logged even
     when not associated with a terminal.  I/O logging is not on by default but can be enabled
     using the log_input and log_output options as well as the LOG_INPUT and LOG_OUTPUT command
     tags.  See I/O LOG FILES for details on how I/O log files are stored.

     Starting with version 1.9, the log_servers setting may be used to send event and I/O log
     data to a remote server running sudo_logsrvd or another service that implements the protocol
     described by sudo_logsrv.proto(5).

   Command environment
     Since environment variables can influence program behavior, sudoers provides a means to
     restrict which variables from the user's environment are inherited by the command to be run.
     There are two distinct ways sudoers can deal with environment variables.

     By default, the env_reset flag is enabled.  This causes commands to be executed with a new,
     minimal environment.  On AIX (and Linux systems without PAM), the environment is initialized
     with the contents of the /etc/environment file.  The HOME, MAIL, SHELL, LOGNAME and USER
     environment variables are initialized based on the target user and the SUDO_* variables are
     set based on the invoking user.  Additional variables, such as DISPLAY, PATH and TERM, are
     preserved from the invoking user's environment if permitted by the env_check, or env_keep
     options.  A few environment variables are treated specially.  If the PATH and TERM variables
     are not preserved from the user's environment, they will be set to default values.  The
     LOGNAME and USER are handled as a single entity.  If one of them is preserved (or removed)
     from the user's environment, the other will be as well.  If LOGNAME and USER are to be
     preserved but only one of them is present in the user's environment, the other will be set
     to the same value.  This avoids an inconsistent environment where one of the variables
     describing the user name is set to the invoking user and one is set to the target user.
     Environment variables with a value beginning with () are removed unless both the name and
     value parts are matched by env_keep or env_check, as they may be interpreted as functions by
     the bash shell.  Prior to version 1.8.11, such variables were always removed.

     If, however, the env_reset flag is disabled, any variables not explicitly denied by the
     env_check and env_delete options are allowed and their values are inherited from the
     invoking process.  Prior to version 1.8.21, environment variables with a value beginning
     with () were always removed.  Beginning with version 1.8.21, a pattern in env_delete is used
     to match bash shell functions instead.  Since it is not possible to block all potentially
     dangerous environment variables, use of the default env_reset behavior is encouraged.

     Environment variables specified by env_check, env_delete, or env_keep may include one or
     more ‘*’ characters which will match zero or more characters.  No other wildcard characters
     are supported.

     By default, environment variables are matched by name.  However, if the pattern includes an
     equal sign (‘=’), both the variables name and value must match.  For example, a bash shell
     function could be matched as follows:

         env_keep += "BASH_FUNC_my_func%%=()*"

     Without the “=()*” suffix, this would not match, as bash shell functions are not preserved
     by default.

     The complete list of environment variables that are preserved or removed, as modified by
     global Defaults parameters in sudoers, is displayed when sudo is run by root with the -V
     option.  Please note that the list of environment variables to remove varies based on the
     operating system sudo is running on.

     Other sudoers options may influence the command environment, such as always_set_home,
     secure_path, set_logname, and set_home.

     On systems that support PAM where the pam_env module is enabled for sudo, variables in the
     PAM environment may be merged in to the environment.  If a variable in the PAM environment
     is already present in the user's environment, the value will only be overridden if the
     variable was not preserved by sudoers.  When env_reset is enabled, variables preserved from
     the invoking user's environment by the env_keep list take precedence over those in the PAM
     environment.  When env_reset is disabled, variables present the invoking user's environment
     take precedence over those in the PAM environment unless they match a pattern in the
     env_delete list.

     Note that the dynamic linker on most operating systems will remove variables that can
     control dynamic linking from the environment of set-user-ID executables, including sudo.
     Depending on the operating system this may include _RLD*, DYLD_*, LD_*, LDR_*, LIBPATH,
     SHLIB_PATH, and others.  These type of variables are removed from the environment before
     sudo even begins execution and, as such, it is not possible for sudo to preserve them.

     As a special case, if the -i option (initial login) is specified, sudoers will initialize
     the environment regardless of the value of env_reset.  The DISPLAY, PATH and TERM variables
     remain unchanged; HOME, MAIL, SHELL, USER, and LOGNAME are set based on the target user.  On
     AIX (and Linux systems without PAM), the contents of /etc/environment are also included.
     All other environment variables are removed unless permitted by env_keep or env_check,
     described above.

     Finally, the restricted_env_file and env_file files are applied, if present.  The variables
     in restricted_env_file are applied first and are subject to the same restrictions as the
     invoking user's environment, as detailed above.  The variables in env_file are applied last
     and are not subject to these restrictions.  In both cases, variables present in the files
     will only be set to their specified values if they would not conflict with an existing
     environment variable.

SUDOERS FILE FORMAT

     The sudoers file is composed of two types of entries: aliases (basically variables) and user
     specifications (which specify who may run what).

     When multiple entries match for a user, they are applied in order.  Where there are multiple
     matches, the last match is used (which is not necessarily the most specific match).

     The sudoers file grammar will be described below in Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF).  Don't
     despair if you are unfamiliar with EBNF; it is fairly simple, and the definitions below are
     annotated.

   Resource limits
     By default, sudoers uses the operating system's native method of setting resource limits for
     the target user.  On Linux systems, resource limits are usually set by the pam_limits.so PAM
     module.  On some BSD systems, the /etc/login.conf file specifies resource limits for the
     user.  On AIX systems, resource limits are configured in the /etc/security/limits file.  If
     there is no system mechanism to set per-user resource limits, the command will run with the
     same limits as the invoking user.  The one exception to this is the core dump file size,
     which is set by sudoers to 0 by default.  Disabling core dumps by default makes it possible
     to avoid potential security problems where the core file is treated as trusted input.

     Resource limits may also be set in the sudoers file itself, in which case they override
     those set by the system.  See the rlimit_as, rlimit_core, rlimit_cpu, rlimit_data,
     rlimit_fsize, rlimit_locks, rlimit_memlock, rlimit_nofile, rlimit_nproc, rlimit_rss,
     rlimit_stack options described below.  Resource limits in sudoers may be specified in one of
     the following formats:

     “value”
             Both the soft and hard resource limits are set to the same value.  The special value
             “infinity” can be used to indicate that the value is unlimited.

     “soft,hard”
             Two comma-separated values.  The soft limit is set to the first value and the hard
             limit is set to the second.  Both values must either be enclosed in a set of double
             quotes, or the comma must be escaped with a backslash (‘\’).  The special value
             “infinity” may be used in place of either value.

     “default”
             The default resource limit for the user will be used.  This may be a user-specific
             value (see above) or the value of the resource limit when sudo was invoked for
             systems that don't support per-user limits.

     “user”  The invoking user's resource limits will be preserved when running the command.

     For example, to restore the historic core dump file size behavior, a line like the following
     may be used.

           Defaults rlimit_core=default

     Resource limits in sudoers are only supported by version 1.8.7 or higher.

   Quick guide to EBNF
     EBNF is a concise and exact way of describing the grammar of a language.  Each EBNF
     definition is made up of production rules.  E.g.,

     symbol ::= definition | alternate1 | alternate2 ...

     Each production rule references others and thus makes up a grammar for the language.  EBNF
     also contains the following operators, which many readers will recognize from regular
     expressions.  Do not, however, confuse them with “wildcard” characters, which have different
     meanings.

     ?     Means that the preceding symbol (or group of symbols) is optional.  That is, it may
           appear once or not at all.

     *     Means that the preceding symbol (or group of symbols) may appear zero or more times.

     +     Means that the preceding symbol (or group of symbols) may appear one or more times.

     Parentheses may be used to group symbols together.  For clarity, we will use single quotes
     ('') to designate what is a verbatim character string (as opposed to a symbol name).

   Aliases
     There are four kinds of aliases: User_Alias, Runas_Alias, Host_Alias and Cmnd_Alias.
     Beginning with sudo 1.9.0, Cmd_Alias may be used in place of Cmnd_Alias if desired.

     Alias ::= 'User_Alias'  User_Alias_Spec (':' User_Alias_Spec)* |
               'Runas_Alias' Runas_Alias_Spec (':' Runas_Alias_Spec)* |
               'Host_Alias'  Host_Alias_Spec (':' Host_Alias_Spec)* |
               'Cmnd_Alias'  Cmnd_Alias_Spec (':' Cmnd_Alias_Spec)* |
               'Cmd_Alias'   Cmnd_Alias_Spec (':' Cmnd_Alias_Spec)*

     User_Alias ::= NAME

     User_Alias_Spec ::= User_Alias '=' User_List

     Runas_Alias ::= NAME

     Runas_Alias_Spec ::= Runas_Alias '=' Runas_List

     Host_Alias ::= NAME

     Host_Alias_Spec ::= Host_Alias '=' Host_List

     Cmnd_Alias ::= NAME

     Cmnd_Alias_Spec ::= Cmnd_Alias '=' Cmnd_List

     NAME ::= [A-Z]([A-Z][0-9]_)*

     Each alias definition is of the form

     Alias_Type NAME = item1, item2, ...

     where Alias_Type is one of User_Alias, Runas_Alias, Host_Alias, or Cmnd_Alias.  A NAME is a
     string of uppercase letters, numbers, and underscore characters (‘_’).  A NAME must start
     with an uppercase letter.  It is possible to put several alias definitions of the same type
     on a single line, joined by a colon (‘:’).  E.g.,

     Alias_Type NAME = item1, item2, item3 : NAME = item4, item5

     It is a syntax error to redefine an existing alias.  It is possible to use the same name for
     aliases of different types, but this is not recommended.

     The definitions of what constitutes a valid alias member follow.

     User_List ::= User |
                   User ',' User_List

     User ::= '!'* user name |
              '!'* #user-ID |
              '!'* %group |
              '!'* %#group-ID |
              '!'* +netgroup |
              '!'* %:nonunix_group |
              '!'* %:#nonunix_gid |
              '!'* User_Alias

     A User_List is made up of one or more user names, user-IDs (prefixed with ‘#’), system group
     names and IDs (prefixed with ‘%’ and ‘%#’ respectively), netgroups (prefixed with ‘+’), non-
     Unix group names and IDs (prefixed with ‘%:’ and ‘%:#’ respectively), and User_Aliases. Each
     list item may be prefixed with zero or more ‘!’ operators.  An odd number of ‘!’ operators
     negate the value of the item; an even number just cancel each other out.  User netgroups are
     matched using the user and domain members only; the host member is not used when matching.

     A user name, user-ID, group, group-ID, netgroup, nonunix_group or nonunix_gid may be
     enclosed in double quotes to avoid the need for escaping special characters.  Alternately,
     special characters may be specified in escaped hex mode, e.g., \x20 for space.  When using
     double quotes, any prefix characters must be included inside the quotes.

     The actual nonunix_group and nonunix_gid syntax depends on the underlying group provider
     plugin.  For instance, the QAS AD plugin supports the following formats:

       Group in the same domain: "%:Group Name"

       Group in any domain: "%:Group Name@FULLY.QUALIFIED.DOMAIN"

       Group SID: "%:S-1-2-34-5678901234-5678901234-5678901234-567"

     See GROUP PROVIDER PLUGINS for more information.

     Note that quotes around group names are optional.  Unquoted strings must use a backslash
     (‘\’) to escape spaces and special characters.  See Other special characters and reserved
     words for a list of characters that need to be escaped.

     Runas_List ::= Runas_Member |
                    Runas_Member ',' Runas_List

     Runas_Member ::= '!'* user name |
                      '!'* #user-ID |
                      '!'* %group |
                      '!'* %#group-ID |
                      '!'* %:nonunix_group |
                      '!'* %:#nonunix_gid |
                      '!'* +netgroup |
                      '!'* Runas_Alias

     A Runas_List is similar to a User_List except that instead of User_Aliases it can contain
     Runas_Aliases.  Note that user names and groups are matched as strings.  In other words, two
     users (groups) with the same user (group) ID are considered to be distinct.  If you wish to
     match all user names with the same user-ID (e.g., root and toor), you can use a user-ID
     instead of a name (#0 in the example given).  Note that the user-ID or group-ID specified in
     a Runas_Member need not be listed in the password or group database.

     Host_List ::= Host |
                   Host ',' Host_List

     Host ::= '!'* host name |
              '!'* ip_addr |
              '!'* network(/netmask)? |
              '!'* +netgroup |
              '!'* Host_Alias

     A Host_List is made up of one or more host names, IP addresses, network numbers, netgroups
     (prefixed with ‘+’), and other aliases.  Again, the value of an item may be negated with the
     ‘!’ operator.  Host netgroups are matched using the host (both qualified and unqualified)
     and domain members only; the user member is not used when matching.  If you specify a
     network number without a netmask, sudo will query each of the local host's network
     interfaces and, if the network number corresponds to one of the hosts's network interfaces,
     will use the netmask of that interface.  The netmask may be specified either in standard IP
     address notation (e.g., 255.255.255.0 or ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::), or CIDR notation (number of
     bits, e.g., 24 or 64).  A host name may include shell-style wildcards (see the Wildcards
     section below), but unless the host name command on your machine returns the fully qualified
     host name, you'll need to use the fqdn flag for wildcards to be useful.  Note that sudo only
     inspects actual network interfaces; this means that IP address 127.0.0.1 (localhost) will
     never match.  Also, the host name “localhost” will only match if that is the actual host
     name, which is usually only the case for non-networked systems.

     digest ::= [A-Fa-f0-9]+ |
                [A-Za-z0-9\+/=]+

     Digest_Spec ::= "sha224" ':' digest |
                     "sha256" ':' digest |
                     "sha384" ':' digest |
                     "sha512" ':' digest

     Digest_List ::= Digest_Spec |
                     Digest_Spec ',' Digest_List

     Cmnd_List ::= Cmnd |
                   Cmnd ',' Cmnd_List

     command name ::= file name |
                      file name args |
                      file name '""'

     Edit_Spec ::= "sudoedit" file name+

     Cmnd ::= Digest_List? '!'* command name |
              '!'* directory |
              '!'* Edit_Spec |
              '!'* Cmnd_Alias

     A Cmnd_List is a list of one or more command names, directories, and other aliases.  A
     command name is a fully qualified file name which may include shell-style wildcards (see the
     Wildcards section below).  A simple file name allows the user to run the command with any
     arguments they wish.  However, you may also specify command line arguments (including
     wildcards).  Alternately, you can specify "" to indicate that the command may only be run
     without command line arguments.  A directory is a fully qualified path name ending in a ‘/’.
     When you specify a directory in a Cmnd_List, the user will be able to run any file within
     that directory (but not in any sub-directories therein).

     If a Cmnd has associated command line arguments, then the arguments in the Cmnd must match
     exactly those given by the user on the command line (or match the wildcards if there are
     any).  Note that the following characters must be escaped with a ‘\’ if they are used in
     command arguments: ‘,’, ‘:’, ‘=’, ‘\’.  The built-in command “sudoedit” is used to permit a
     user to run sudo with the -e option (or as sudoedit).  It may take command line arguments
     just as a normal command does.  Note that “sudoedit” is a command built into sudo itself and
     must be specified in the sudoers file without a leading path.  If a leading path is present,
     for example /usr/bin/sudoedit, the path name will be silently converted to “sudoedit”.  A
     fully-qualified path for sudoedit is treated as an error by visudo.

     A command name may be preceded by a Digest_List, a comma-separated list of one or more
     Digest_Spec entries.  If a Digest_List is present, the command will only match successfully
     if it can be verified using one of the SHA-2 digests in the list.  Starting with version
     1.9.0, the ALL reserved word can be used in conjunction with a Digest_List.  The following
     digest formats are supported: sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512.  The string may be
     specified in either hex or base64 format (base64 is more compact).  There are several
     utilities capable of generating SHA-2 digests in hex format such as openssl, shasum,
     sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum.

     For example, using openssl:

     $ openssl dgst -sha224 /bin/ls
     SHA224(/bin/ls)= 118187da8364d490b4a7debbf483004e8f3e053ec954309de2c41a25

     It is also possible to use openssl to generate base64 output:

     $ openssl dgst -binary -sha224 /bin/ls | openssl base64
     EYGH2oNk1JC0p9679IMATo8+BT7JVDCd4sQaJQ==

     Warning, if the user has write access to the command itself (directly or via a sudo
     command), it may be possible for the user to replace the command after the digest check has
     been performed but before the command is executed.  A similar race condition exists on
     systems that lack the fexecve() system call when the directory in which the command is
     located is writable by the user.  See the description of the fdexec setting for more
     information on how sudo executes commands that have an associated digest.

     Command digests are only supported by version 1.8.7 or higher.

   Defaults
     Certain configuration options may be changed from their default values at run-time via one
     or more Default_Entry lines.  These may affect all users on any host, all users on a
     specific host, a specific user, a specific command, or commands being run as a specific
     user.  Note that per-command entries may not include command line arguments.  If you need to
     specify arguments, define a Cmnd_Alias and reference that instead.

     Default_Type ::= 'Defaults' |
                      'Defaults' '@' Host_List |
                      'Defaults' ':' User_List |
                      'Defaults' '!' Cmnd_List |
                      'Defaults' '>' Runas_List

     Default_Entry ::= Default_Type Parameter_List

     Parameter_List ::= Parameter |
                        Parameter ',' Parameter_List

     Parameter ::= Parameter '=' Value |
                   Parameter '+=' Value |
                   Parameter '-=' Value |
                   '!'* Parameter

     Parameters may be flags, integer values, strings, or lists.  Flags are implicitly boolean
     and can be turned off via the ‘!’ operator.  Some integer, string and list parameters may
     also be used in a boolean context to disable them.  Values may be enclosed in double quotes
     ("") when they contain multiple words.  Special characters may be escaped with a backslash
     (‘\’).

     To include a literal backslash character in a command line argument you must escape the
     backslash twice.  For example, to match ‘\n’ as part of a command line argument, you must
     use ‘\\\\n’ in the sudoers file.  This is due to there being two levels of escaping, one in
     the sudoers parser itself and another when command line arguments are matched by the
     fnmatch(3) function.

     Lists have two additional assignment operators, += and -=.  These operators are used to add
     to and delete from a list respectively.  It is not an error to use the -= operator to remove
     an element that does not exist in a list.

     Defaults entries are parsed in the following order: generic, host, user, and runas Defaults
     first, then command defaults.  If there are multiple Defaults settings of the same type, the
     last matching setting is used.  The following Defaults settings are parsed before all others
     since they may affect subsequent entries: fqdn, group_plugin, runas_default, sudoers_locale.

     See SUDOERS OPTIONS for a list of supported Defaults parameters.

   User specification
     User_Spec ::= User_List Host_List '=' Cmnd_Spec_List \
                   (':' Host_List '=' Cmnd_Spec_List)*

     Cmnd_Spec_List ::= Cmnd_Spec |
                        Cmnd_Spec ',' Cmnd_Spec_List

     Cmnd_Spec ::= Runas_Spec? Option_Spec* Tag_Spec* Cmnd

     Runas_Spec ::= '(' Runas_List? (':' Runas_List)? ')'

     Option_Spec ::= (SELinux_Spec | Date_Spec | Timeout_Spec | Chdir_Spec | Chroot_Spec)

     SELinux_Spec ::= ('ROLE=role' | 'TYPE=type')

     Date_Spec ::= ('NOTBEFORE=timestamp' | 'NOTAFTER=timestamp')

     Timeout_Spec ::= 'TIMEOUT=timeout'

     Chdir_Spec ::= 'CWD=directory'

     Chroot_Spec ::= 'CHROOT=directory'

     Tag_Spec ::= ('EXEC:' | 'NOEXEC:' | 'FOLLOW:' | 'NOFOLLOW' |
                   'LOG_INPUT:' | 'NOLOG_INPUT:' | 'LOG_OUTPUT:' |
                   'NOLOG_OUTPUT:' | 'MAIL:' | 'NOMAIL:' | 'INTERCEPT:' |
                   'NOINTERCEPT:' | 'PASSWD:' | 'NOPASSWD:' | 'SETENV:' |
                   'NOSETENV:')

     A user specification determines which commands a user may run (and as what user) on
     specified hosts.  By default, commands are run as root, but this can be changed on a per-
     command basis.

     The basic structure of a user specification is “who where = (as_whom) what”.  Let's break
     that down into its constituent parts:

   Runas_Spec
     A Runas_Spec determines the user and/or the group that a command may be run as.  A fully-
     specified Runas_Spec consists of two Runas_Lists (as defined above) separated by a colon
     (‘:’) and enclosed in a set of parentheses.  The first Runas_List indicates which users the
     command may be run as via the -u option.  The second defines a list of groups that may be
     specified via the -g option (in addition to any of the target user's groups).  If both
     Runas_Lists are specified, the command may be run with any combination of users and groups
     listed in their respective Runas_Lists. If only the first is specified, the command may be
     run as any user in the list and, optionally, with any group the target user belongs to.  If
     the first Runas_List is empty but the second is specified, the command may be run as the
     invoking user with the group set to any listed in the Runas_List.  If both Runas_Lists are
     empty, the command may only be run as the invoking user and the group, if specified, must be
     one that the invoking user is a member of.  If no Runas_Spec is specified, the command may
     only be run as root and the group, if specified, must be one that root is a member of.

     A Runas_Spec sets the default for the commands that follow it.  What this means is that for
     the entry:

     dgb     boulder = (operator) /bin/ls, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/lprm

     The user dgb may run /bin/ls, /bin/kill, and /usr/bin/lprm on the host boulder—but only as
     operator.  E.g.,

     $ sudo -u operator /bin/ls

     It is also possible to override a Runas_Spec later on in an entry.  If we modify the entry
     like so:

     dgb     boulder = (operator) /bin/ls, (root) /bin/kill, /usr/bin/lprm

     Then user dgb is now allowed to run /bin/ls as operator, but /bin/kill and /usr/bin/lprm as
     root.

     We can extend this to allow dgb to run /bin/ls with either the user or group set to
     operator:

     dgb     boulder = (operator : operator) /bin/ls, (root) /bin/kill,\
             /usr/bin/lprm

     Note that while the group portion of the Runas_Spec permits the user to run as command with
     that group, it does not force the user to do so.  If no group is specified on the command
     line, the command will run with the group listed in the target user's password database
     entry.  The following would all be permitted by the sudoers entry above:

     $ sudo -u operator /bin/ls
     $ sudo -u operator -g operator /bin/ls
     $ sudo -g operator /bin/ls

     In the following example, user tcm may run commands that access a modem device file with the
     dialer group.

     tcm     boulder = (:dialer) /usr/bin/tip, /usr/bin/cu,\
             /usr/local/bin/minicom

     Note that in this example only the group will be set, the command still runs as user tcm.
     E.g.

     $ sudo -g dialer /usr/bin/cu

     Multiple users and groups may be present in a Runas_Spec, in which case the user may select
     any combination of users and groups via the -u and -g options.  In this example:

     alan    ALL = (root, bin : operator, system) ALL

     user alan may run any command as either user root or bin, optionally setting the group to
     operator or system.

   Option_Spec
     A Cmnd may have zero or more options associated with it.  Options may consist of SELinux
     roles and/or types, start and/or end dates and command timeouts.  Once an option is set for
     a Cmnd, subsequent Cmnds in the Cmnd_Spec_List, inherit that option unless it is overridden
     by another option.  Note that the option names are reserved words in sudoers.  This means
     that none of the valid option names (see below) can be used when declaring an alias.

   SELinux_Spec
     On systems with SELinux support, sudoers file entries may optionally have an SELinux role
     and/or type associated with a command.  This can be used to implement a form of role-based
     access control (RBAC).  If a role or type is specified with the command it will override any
     default values specified in sudoers.  A role or type specified on the command line, however,
     will supersede the values in sudoers.

   Date_Spec
     sudoers rules can be specified with a start and end date via the NOTBEFORE and NOTAFTER
     settings.  The time stamp must be specified in Generalized Time as defined by RFC 4517.  The
     format is effectively yyyymmddHHMMSSZ where the minutes and seconds are optional.  The ‘Z’
     suffix indicates that the time stamp is in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).  It is also
     possible to specify a timezone offset from UTC in hours and minutes instead of a ‘Z’.  For
     example, ‘-0500’ would correspond to Eastern Standard time in the US.  As an extension, if
     no ‘Z’ or timezone offset is specified, local time will be used.

     The following are all valid time stamps:

         20170214083000Z
         2017021408Z
         20160315220000-0500
         20151201235900

   Timeout_Spec
     A command may have a timeout associated with it.  If the timeout expires before the command
     has exited, the command will be terminated.  The timeout may be specified in combinations of
     days, hours, minutes, and seconds with a single-letter case-insensitive suffix that
     indicates the unit of time.  For example, a timeout of 7 days, 8 hours, 30 minutes, and 10
     seconds would be written as 7d8h30m10s.  If a number is specified without a unit, seconds
     are assumed.  Any of the days, minutes, hours, or seconds may be omitted.  The order must be
     from largest to smallest unit and a unit may not be specified more than once.

     The following are all valid timeout values: 7d8h30m10s, 14d, 8h30m, 600s, 3600.  The
     following are invalid timeout values: 12m2w1d, 30s10m4h, 1d2d3h.

     This setting is only supported by version 1.8.20 or higher.

   Chdir_Spec
     The working directory that the command will be run in can be specified using the CWD
     setting.  The directory must be a fully-qualified path name beginning with a ‘/’ or ‘~’
     character, or the special value “*”.  A value of “*” indicates that the user may specify the
     working directory by running sudo with the -D option.  By default, commands are run from the
     invoking user's current working directory, unless the -i option is given.  Path names of the
     form ~user/path/name are interpreted as being relative to the named user's home directory.
     If the user name is omitted, the path will be relative to the runas user's home directory.

     This setting is only supported by version 1.9.3 or higher.

   Chroot_Spec
     The root directory that the command will be run in can be specified using the CHROOT
     setting.  The directory must be a fully-qualified path name beginning with a ‘/’ or ‘~’
     character, or the special value “*”.  A value of “*” indicates that the user may specify the
     root directory by running sudo with the -R option.  This setting can be used to run the
     command in a chroot(2) “sandbox” similar to the chroot(8) utility.  Path names of the form
     ~user/path/name are interpreted as being relative to the named user's home directory.  If
     the user name is omitted, the path will be relative to the runas user's home directory.

     This setting is only supported by version 1.9.3 or higher.

   Tag_Spec
     A command may have zero or more tags associated with it.  The following tag values are
     supported: EXEC, NOEXEC, FOLLOW, NOFOLLOW, LOG_INPUT, NOLOG_INPUT, LOG_OUTPUT, NOLOG_OUTPUT,
     MAIL, NOMAIL, INTERCEPT, NOINTERCEPT, PASSWD, NOPASSWD, SETENV, and NOSETENV.  Once a tag is
     set on a Cmnd, subsequent Cmnds in the Cmnd_Spec_List, inherit the tag unless it is
     overridden by the opposite tag (in other words, PASSWD overrides NOPASSWD and NOEXEC
     overrides EXEC).

     EXEC and NOEXEC

       If sudo has been compiled with noexec support and the underlying operating system supports
       it, the NOEXEC tag can be used to prevent a dynamically-linked executable from running
       further commands itself.

       In the following example, user aaron may run /usr/bin/more and /usr/bin/vi but shell
       escapes will be disabled.

       aaron   shanty = NOEXEC: /usr/bin/more, /usr/bin/vi

       See the Preventing shell escapes section below for more details on how NOEXEC works and
       whether or not it will work on your system.

     FOLLOW and NOFOLLOW Starting with version 1.8.15, sudoedit will not open a file that is a
       symbolic link unless the sudoedit_follow flag is enabled.  The FOLLOW and NOFOLLOW tags
       override the value of sudoedit_follow and can be used to permit (or deny) the editing of
       symbolic links on a per-command basis.  These tags are only effective for the sudoedit
       command and are ignored for all other commands.

     LOG_INPUT and NOLOG_INPUT

       These tags override the value of the log_input flag on a per-command basis.  For more
       information, see the description of log_input in the SUDOERS OPTIONS section below.

     LOG_OUTPUT and NOLOG_OUTPUT

       These tags override the value of the log_output flag on a per-command basis.  For more
       information, see the description of log_output in the SUDOERS OPTIONS section below.

     MAIL and NOMAIL

       These tags provide fine-grained control over whether mail will be sent when a user runs a
       command by overriding the value of the mail_all_cmnds flag on a per-command basis.  They
       have no effect when sudo is run with the -l or -v options.  A NOMAIL tag will also
       override the mail_always and mail_no_perms options.  For more information, see the
       descriptions of mail_all_cmnds, mail_always, and mail_no_perms in the SUDOERS OPTIONS
       section below.

     PASSWD and NOPASSWD

       By default, sudo requires that a user authenticate before running a command.  This
       behavior can be modified via the NOPASSWD tag.  Like a Runas_Spec, the NOPASSWD tag sets a
       default for the commands that follow it in the Cmnd_Spec_List.  Conversely, the PASSWD tag
       can be used to reverse things.  For example:

       ray     rushmore = NOPASSWD: /bin/kill, /bin/ls, /usr/bin/lprm

       would allow the user ray to run /bin/kill, /bin/ls, and /usr/bin/lprm as root on the
       machine “rushmore” without authenticating himself.  If we only want ray to be able to run
       /bin/kill without a password the entry would be:

       ray     rushmore = NOPASSWD: /bin/kill, PASSWD: /bin/ls, /usr/bin/lprm

       Note, however, that the PASSWD tag has no effect on users who are in the group specified
       by the exempt_group setting.

       By default, if the NOPASSWD tag is applied to any of a user's entries for the current
       host, the user will be able to run “sudo -l” without a password.  Additionally, a user may
       only run “sudo -v” without a password if all of the user's entries for the current host
       have the NOPASSWD tag.  This behavior may be overridden via the verifypw and listpw
       options.

     SETENV and NOSETENV

       These tags override the value of the setenv flag on a per-command basis.  Note that if
       SETENV has been set for a command, the user may disable the env_reset flag from the
       command line via the -E option.  Additionally, environment variables set on the command
       line are not subject to the restrictions imposed by env_check, env_delete, or env_keep.
       As such, only trusted users should be allowed to set variables in this manner.  If the
       command matched is ALL, the SETENV tag is implied for that command; this default may be
       overridden by use of the NOSETENV tag.

     INTERCEPT and NOINTERCEPT

       If sudo has been compiled with intercept support and the underlying operating system
       supports it, the INTERCEPT tag can be used to cause programs spawned by a command to be
       validated against sudoers and logged just like they would be if run through sudo directly.
       This is useful in conjunction with commands that allow shell escapes such as editors,
       shells, and paginators.

       In the following example, user chuck may run any command on the machine “research” in
       intercept mode.

       chuck   research = INTERCEPT: ALL

       See the Preventing shell escapes section below for more details on how INTERCEPT works and
       whether or not it will work on your system.

   Wildcards
     sudo allows shell-style wildcards (aka meta or glob characters) to be used in host names,
     path names, and command line arguments in the sudoers file.  Wildcard matching is done via
     the glob(3) and fnmatch(3) functions as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1 (“POSIX.1”).

     *         Matches any set of zero or more characters (including white space).

     ?         Matches any single character (including white space).

     [...]     Matches any character in the specified range.

     [!...]    Matches any character not in the specified range.

     \x        For any character ‘x’, evaluates to ‘x’.  This is used to escape special
               characters such as: ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘[’, and ‘]’.

     Note that these are not regular expressions.  Unlike a regular expression there is no way to
     match one or more characters within a range.

     Character classes may be used if your system's glob(3) and fnmatch(3) functions support
     them.  However, because the ‘:’ character has special meaning in sudoers, it must be
     escaped.  For example:

         /bin/ls [[\:alpha\:]]*

     Would match any file name beginning with a letter.

     Note that a forward slash (‘/’) will not be matched by wildcards used in the file name
     portion of the command.  This is to make a path like:

         /usr/bin/*

     match /usr/bin/who but not /usr/bin/X11/xterm.

     When matching the command line arguments, however, a slash does get matched by wildcards
     since command line arguments may contain arbitrary strings and not just path names.

     Wildcards in command line arguments should be used with care.
     Command line arguments are matched as a single, concatenated string.  This mean a wildcard
     character such as ‘?’ or ‘*’ will match across word boundaries, which may be unexpected.
     For example, while a sudoers entry like:

         %operator ALL = /bin/cat /var/log/messages*

     will allow command like:

         $ sudo cat /var/log/messages.1

     It will also allow:

         $ sudo cat /var/log/messages /etc/shadow

     which is probably not what was intended.  In most cases it is better to do command line
     processing outside of the sudoers file in a scripting language.

   Exceptions to wildcard rules
     The following exceptions apply to the above rules:

     ""        If the empty string "" is the only command line argument in the sudoers file entry
               it means that command is not allowed to be run with any arguments.

     sudoedit  Command line arguments to the sudoedit built-in command should always be path
               names, so a forward slash (‘/’) will not be matched by a wildcard.

   Including other files from within sudoers
     It is possible to include other sudoers files from within the sudoers file currently being
     parsed using the @include and @includedir directives.  For compatibility with sudo versions
     prior to 1.9.1, #include and #includedir are also accepted.

     An include file can be used, for example, to keep a site-wide sudoers file in addition to a
     local, per-machine file.  For the sake of this example the site-wide sudoers file will be
     /etc/sudoers and the per-machine one will be /etc/sudoers.local.  To include
     /etc/sudoers.local from within /etc/sudoers one would use the following line in
     /etc/sudoers:

         @include /etc/sudoers.local

     When sudo reaches this line it will suspend processing of the current file (/etc/sudoers)
     and switch to /etc/sudoers.local.  Upon reaching the end of /etc/sudoers.local, the rest of
     /etc/sudoers will be processed.  Files that are included may themselves include other files.
     A hard limit of 128 nested include files is enforced to prevent include file loops.

     Starting with version 1.9.1, the path to the include file may contain white space if it is
     escaped with a backslash (‘\’).  Alternately, the entire path may be enclosed in double
     quotes (""), in which case no escaping is necessary.  To include a literal backslash in the
     path, ‘\\’ should be used.

     If the path to the include file is not fully-qualified (does not begin with a ‘/’), it must
     be located in the same directory as the sudoers file it was included from.  For example, if
     /etc/sudoers contains the line:

         @include sudoers.local

     the file that will be included is /etc/sudoers.local.

     The file name may also include the %h escape, signifying the short form of the host name.
     In other words, if the machine's host name is “xerxes”, then

         @include /etc/sudoers.%h

     will cause sudo to include the file /etc/sudoers.xerxes.

     The @includedir directive can be used to create a sudoers.d directory that the system
     package manager can drop sudoers file rules into as part of package installation.  For
     example, given:

         @includedir /etc/sudoers.d

     sudo will suspend processing of the current file and read each file in /etc/sudoers.d,
     skipping file names that end in ‘~’ or contain a ‘.’ character to avoid causing problems
     with package manager or editor temporary/backup files.  Files are parsed in sorted lexical
     order.  That is, /etc/sudoers.d/01_first will be parsed before /etc/sudoers.d/10_second.  Be
     aware that because the sorting is lexical, not numeric, /etc/sudoers.d/1_whoops would be
     loaded after /etc/sudoers.d/10_second.  Using a consistent number of leading zeroes in the
     file names can be used to avoid such problems.  After parsing the files in the directory,
     control returns to the file that contained the @includedir directive.

     Note that unlike files included via @include, visudo will not edit the files in a
     @includedir directory unless one of them contains a syntax error.  It is still possible to
     run visudo with the -f flag to edit the files directly, but this will not catch the
     redefinition of an alias that is also present in a different file.

   Other special characters and reserved words
     The pound sign (‘#’) is used to indicate a comment (unless it is part of a #include
     directive or unless it occurs in the context of a user name and is followed by one or more
     digits, in which case it is treated as a user-ID).  Both the comment character and any text
     after it, up to the end of the line, are ignored.

     The reserved word ALL is a built-in alias that always causes a match to succeed.  It can be
     used wherever one might otherwise use a Cmnd_Alias, User_Alias, Runas_Alias, or Host_Alias.
     Attempting to define an alias named ALL will result in a syntax error.  Please note that
     using ALL can be dangerous since in a command context, it allows the user to run any command
     on the system.

     The following option names permitted in an Option_Spec are also considered reserved words:
     CHROOT, ROLE, TYPE, TIMEOUT, CWD, NOTBEFORE and NOTAFTER.  Attempting to define an alias
     with the same name as one of the options will result in a syntax error.

     An exclamation point (‘!’) can be used as a logical not operator in a list or alias as well
     as in front of a Cmnd.  This allows one to exclude certain values.  For the ‘!’ operator to
     be effective, there must be something for it to exclude.  For example, to match all users
     except for root one would use:

         ALL,!root

     If the ALL, is omitted, as in:

         !root

     it would explicitly deny root but not match any other users.  This is different from a true
     “negation” operator.

     Note, however, that using a ‘!’ in conjunction with the built-in ALL alias to allow a user
     to run “all but a few” commands rarely works as intended (see SECURITY NOTES below).

     Long lines can be continued with a backslash (‘\’) as the last character on the line.

     White space between elements in a list as well as special syntactic characters in a User
     Specification (‘=’, ‘:’, ‘(’, ‘)’) is optional.

     The following characters must be escaped with a backslash (‘\’) when used as part of a word
     (e.g., a user name or host name): ‘!’, ‘=’, ‘:’, ‘,’, ‘(’, ‘)’, ‘\’.

SUDOERS OPTIONS

     sudo's behavior can be modified by Default_Entry lines, as explained earlier.  A list of all
     supported Defaults parameters, grouped by type, are listed below.

     Boolean Flags:

     always_query_group_plugin
                       If a group_plugin is configured, use it to resolve groups of the form
                       %group as long as there is not also a system group of the same name.
                       Normally, only groups of the form %:group are passed to the group_plugin.
                       This flag is off by default.

     always_set_home   If enabled, sudo will set the HOME environment variable to the home
                       directory of the target user (which is the root user unless the -u option
                       is used).  This flag is largely obsolete and has no effect unless the
                       env_reset flag has been disabled or HOME is present in the env_keep list,
                       both of which are strongly discouraged.  This flag is off by default.

     authenticate      If set, users must authenticate themselves via a password (or other means
                       of authentication) before they may run commands.  This default may be
                       overridden via the PASSWD and NOPASSWD tags.  This flag is on by default.

     case_insensitive_group
                       If enabled, group names in sudoers will be matched in a case insensitive
                       manner.  This may be necessary when users are stored in LDAP or AD.  This
                       flag is on by default.

     case_insensitive_user
                       If enabled, user names in sudoers will be matched in a case insensitive
                       manner.  This may be necessary when groups are stored in LDAP or AD.  This
                       flag is on by default.

     closefrom_override
                       If set, the user may use the -C option which overrides the default
                       starting point at which sudo begins closing open file descriptors.  This
                       flag is off by default.

     compress_io       If set, and sudo is configured to log a command's input or output, the I/O
                       logs will be compressed using zlib.  This flag is on by default when sudo
                       is compiled with zlib support.

     exec_background   By default, sudo runs a command as the foreground process as long as sudo
                       itself is running in the foreground.  When the exec_background flag is
                       enabled and the command is being run in a pseudo-terminal (due to I/O
                       logging or the use_pty flag), the command will be run as a background
                       process.  Attempts to read from the controlling terminal (or to change
                       terminal settings) will result in the command being suspended with the
                       SIGTTIN signal (or SIGTTOU in the case of terminal settings).  If this
                       happens when sudo is a foreground process, the command will be granted the
                       controlling terminal and resumed in the foreground with no user
                       intervention required.  The advantage of initially running the command in
                       the background is that sudo need not read from the terminal unless the
                       command explicitly requests it.  Otherwise, any terminal input must be
                       passed to the command, whether it has required it or not (the kernel
                       buffers terminals so it is not possible to tell whether the command really
                       wants the input).  This is different from historic sudo behavior or when
                       the command is not being run in a pseudo-terminal.

                       For this to work seamlessly, the operating system must support the
                       automatic restarting of system calls.  Unfortunately, not all operating
                       systems do this by default, and even those that do may have bugs.  For
                       example, macOS fails to restart the tcgetattr() and tcsetattr() system
                       calls (this is a bug in macOS).  Furthermore, because this behavior
                       depends on the command stopping with the SIGTTIN or SIGTTOU signals,
                       programs that catch these signals and suspend themselves with a different
                       signal (usually SIGTOP) will not be automatically foregrounded.  Some
                       versions of the linux su(1) command behave this way.  This flag is off by
                       default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.7 or higher.  It has no
                       effect unless I/O logging is enabled or the use_pty flag is enabled.

     env_editor        If set, visudo will use the value of the SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR
                       environment variables before falling back on the default editor list.
                       Note that visudo is typically run as root so this flag may allow a user
                       with visudo privileges to run arbitrary commands as root without logging.
                       An alternative is to place a colon-separated list of “safe” editors int
                       the editor setting.  visudo will then only use SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or
                       EDITOR if they match a value specified in editor.  If the env_reset flag
                       is enabled, the SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL and/or EDITOR environment variables
                       must be present in the env_keep list for the env_editor flag to function
                       when visudo is invoked via sudo.  This flag is on by default.

     env_reset         If set, sudo will run the command in a minimal environment containing the
                       TERM, PATH, HOME, MAIL, SHELL, LOGNAME, USER and SUDO_* variables.  Any
                       variables in the caller's environment or in the file specified by the
                       restricted_env_file setting that match the env_keep and env_check lists
                       are then added, followed by any variables present in the file specified by
                       the env_file setting (if any).  The contents of the env_keep and env_check
                       lists, as modified by global Defaults parameters in sudoers, are displayed
                       when sudo is run by root with the -V option.  If the secure_path setting
                       is enabled, its value will be used for the PATH environment variable.
                       This flag is on by default.

     fast_glob         Normally, sudo uses the glob(3) function to do shell-style globbing when
                       matching path names.  However, since it accesses the file system, glob(3)
                       can take a long time to complete for some patterns, especially when the
                       pattern references a network file system that is mounted on demand (auto
                       mounted).  The fast_glob flag causes sudo to use the fnmatch(3) function,
                       which does not access the file system to do its matching.  The
                       disadvantage of fast_glob is that it is unable to match relative path
                       names such as ./ls or ../bin/ls.  This has security implications when path
                       names that include globbing characters are used with the negation
                       operator, ‘!’, as such rules can be trivially bypassed.  As such, this
                       flag should not be used when the sudoers file contains rules that contain
                       negated path names which include globbing characters.  This flag is off by
                       default.

     fqdn              Set this flag if you want to put fully qualified host names in the sudoers
                       file when the local host name (as returned by the hostname command) does
                       not contain the domain name.  In other words, instead of myhost you would
                       use myhost.mydomain.edu.  You may still use the short form if you wish
                       (and even mix the two).  This flag is only effective when the “canonical”
                       host name, as returned by the getaddrinfo() or gethostbyname() function,
                       is a fully-qualified domain name.  This is usually the case when the
                       system is configured to use DNS for host name resolution.

                       If the system is configured to use the /etc/hosts file in preference to
                       DNS, the “canonical” host name may not be fully-qualified.  The order that
                       sources are queried for host name resolution is usually specified in the
                       /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/netsvc.conf, /etc/host.conf, or, in some cases,
                       /etc/resolv.conf file.  In the /etc/hosts file, the first host name of the
                       entry is considered to be the “canonical” name; subsequent names are
                       aliases that are not used by sudoers.  For example, the following hosts
                       file line for the machine “xyzzy” has the fully-qualified domain name as
                       the “canonical” host name, and the short version as an alias.

                             192.168.1.1 xyzzy.sudo.ws xyzzy

                       If the machine's hosts file entry is not formatted properly, the fqdn flag
                       will not be effective if it is queried before DNS.

                       Beware that when using DNS for host name resolution, turning on fqdn
                       requires sudoers to make DNS lookups which renders sudo unusable if DNS
                       stops working (for example if the machine is disconnected from the
                       network).  Also note that just like with the hosts file, you must use the
                       “canonical” name as DNS knows it.  That is, you may not use a host alias
                       (CNAME entry) due to performance issues and the fact that there is no way
                       to get all aliases from DNS.

                       This flag is on by default.

     ignore_audit_errors
                       Allow commands to be run even if sudoers cannot write to the audit log.
                       If enabled, an audit log write failure is not treated as a fatal error.
                       If disabled, a command may only be run after the audit event is
                       successfully written.  This flag is only effective on systems for which
                       sudoers supports audit logging, including FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and
                       Solaris.  This flag is on by default.

     ignore_dot        If set, sudo will ignore "." or "" (both denoting current directory) in
                       the PATH environment variable; the PATH itself is not modified.  This flag
                       is off by default.

     ignore_iolog_errors
                       Allow commands to be run even if sudoers cannot write to the I/O log
                       (local or remote).  If enabled, an I/O log write failure is not treated as
                       a fatal error.  If disabled, the command will be terminated if the I/O log
                       cannot be written to.  This flag is off by default.

     ignore_logfile_errors
                       Allow commands to be run even if sudoers cannot write to the log file.  If
                       enabled, a log file write failure is not treated as a fatal error.  If
                       disabled, a command may only be run after the log file entry is
                       successfully written.  This flag only has an effect when sudoers is
                       configured to use file-based logging via the logfile setting.  This flag
                       is on by default.

     ignore_local_sudoers
                       If set via LDAP, parsing of /etc/sudoers will be skipped.  This is
                       intended for Enterprises that wish to prevent the usage of local sudoers
                       files so that only LDAP is used.  This thwarts the efforts of rogue
                       operators who would attempt to add roles to /etc/sudoers.  When this flag
                       is enabled, /etc/sudoers does not even need to exist.  Since this flag
                       tells sudo how to behave when no specific LDAP entries have been matched,
                       this sudoOption is only meaningful for the cn=defaults section.  This flag
                       is off by default.

     ignore_unknown_defaults
                       If set, sudo will not produce a warning if it encounters an unknown
                       Defaults entry in the sudoers file or an unknown sudoOption in LDAP.  This
                       flag is off by default.

     insults           If set, sudo will insult users when they enter an incorrect password.
                       This flag is off by default.

     log_allowed       If set, sudoers will log commands allowed by the policy to the system
                       audit log (where supported) as well as to syslog and/or a log file.  This
                       flag is on by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.29 or higher.

     log_denied        If set, sudoers will log commands denied by the policy to the system audit
                       log (where supported) as well as to syslog and/or a log file.  This flag
                       is on by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.29 or higher.

     log_exit_status   If set, sudoers will log the exit value of commands that are run to syslog
                       and/or a log file.  If a command was terminated by a signal, the signal
                       name is logged as well.  This flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.8 or higher.

     log_host          If set, the host name will be included in log entries written to the file
                       configured by the logfile setting.  This flag is off by default.

     log_input         If set, sudo will run the command in a pseudo-terminal and log all user
                       input.  If the standard input is not connected to the user's tty, due to
                       I/O redirection or because the command is part of a pipeline, that input
                       is also captured and stored in a separate log file.  Anything sent to the
                       standard input will be consumed, regardless of whether or not the command
                       run via sudo is actually reading the standard input.  This may have
                       unexpected results when using sudo in a shell script that expects to
                       process the standard input.  For more information about I/O logging, see
                       the I/O LOG FILES section.  This flag is off by default.

     log_output        If set, sudo will run the command in a pseudo-terminal and log all output
                       that is sent to the screen, similar to the script(1) command.  For more
                       information about I/O logging, see the I/O LOG FILES section.  This flag
                       is off by default.

     log_server_keepalive
                       If set, sudo will enable the TCP keepalive socket option on the connection
                       to the log server.  This enables the periodic transmission of keepalive
                       messages to the server.  If the server does not respond to a message, the
                       connection will be closed and the running command will be terminated
                       unless the ignore_iolog_errors flag (I/O logging enabled) or the
                       ignore_log_errors flag (I/O logging disabled) is set.  This flag is on by
                       default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

     log_server_verify
                       If set, the server certificate received during the TLS handshake must be
                       valid and it must contain either the server name (from log_servers) or its
                       IP address.  If either of these conditions is not met, the TLS handshake
                       will fail.  This flag is on by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

     log_subcmds       If set, sudoers will log when a command spawns a child process and
                       executes a program using the execl(), execle(), execlp(), execv(),
                       execve(), execvp(), or execvpe() library functions.  For example, if a
                       shell is run by sudo, the individual commands run via the shell will be
                       logged.  This flag is off by default.

                       The log_subcmds flag uses the same underlying mechanism as the intercept
                       setting.  See Preventing shell escapes for more information on what
                       systems support this option and its limitations.  This setting is only
                       supported by version 1.9.8 or higher and is incompatible with SELinux RBAC
                       support.

     log_year          If set, the four-digit year will be logged in the (non-syslog) sudo log
                       file.  This flag is off by default.

     long_otp_prompt   When validating with a One Time Password (OTP) scheme such as S/Key or
                       OPIE, a two-line prompt is used to make it easier to cut and paste the
                       challenge to a local window.  It's not as pretty as the default but some
                       people find it more convenient.  This flag is off by default.

     mail_all_cmnds    Send mail to the mailto user every time a user attempts to run a command
                       via sudo (this includes sudoedit).  No mail will be sent if the user runs
                       sudo with the -l or -v option unless there is an authentication error and
                       the mail_badpass flag is also set.  This flag is off by default.

     mail_always       Send mail to the mailto user every time a user runs sudo.  This flag is
                       off by default.

     mail_badpass      Send mail to the mailto user if the user running sudo does not enter the
                       correct password.  If the command the user is attempting to run is not
                       permitted by sudoers and one of the mail_all_cmnds, mail_always,
                       mail_no_host, mail_no_perms or mail_no_user flags are set, this flag will
                       have no effect.  This flag is off by default.

     mail_no_host      If set, mail will be sent to the mailto user if the invoking user exists
                       in the sudoers file, but is not allowed to run commands on the current
                       host.  This flag is off by default.

     mail_no_perms     If set, mail will be sent to the mailto user if the invoking user is
                       allowed to use sudo but the command they are trying is not listed in their
                       sudoers file entry or is explicitly denied.  This flag is off by default.

     mail_no_user      If set, mail will be sent to the mailto user if the invoking user is not
                       in the sudoers file.  This flag is on by default.

     match_group_by_gid
                       By default, sudoers will look up each group the user is a member of by
                       group-ID to determine the group name (this is only done once).  The
                       resulting list of the user's group names is used when matching groups
                       listed in the sudoers file.  This works well on systems where the number
                       of groups listed in the sudoers file is larger than the number of groups a
                       typical user belongs to.  On systems where group lookups are slow, where
                       users may belong to a large number of groups, and where the number of
                       groups listed in the sudoers file is relatively small, it may be
                       prohibitively expensive and running commands via sudo may take longer than
                       normal.  On such systems it may be faster to use the match_group_by_gid
                       flag to avoid resolving the user's group-IDs to group names.  In this
                       case, sudoers must look up any group name listed in the sudoers file and
                       use the group-ID instead of the group name when determining whether the
                       user is a member of the group.

                       Note that if match_group_by_gid is enabled, group database lookups
                       performed by sudoers will be keyed by group name as opposed to group-ID.
                       On systems where there are multiple sources for the group database, it is
                       possible to have conflicting group names or group-IDs in the local
                       /etc/group file and the remote group database.  On such systems, enabling
                       or disabling match_group_by_gid can be used to choose whether group
                       database queries are performed by name (enabled) or ID (disabled), which
                       may aid in working around group entry conflicts.

                       The match_group_by_gid flag has no effect when sudoers data is stored in
                       LDAP.  This flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.18 or higher.

     intercept         If set, all commands run via sudo will behave as if the INTERCEPT tag has
                       been set, unless overridden by an NOINTERCEPT tag.  See the description of
                       INTERCEPT and NOINTERCEPT above as well as the Preventing shell escapes
                       section at the end of this manual.  This flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.8 or higher and is
                       incompatible with SELinux RBAC support.

     intercept_allow_setid
                       On most systems, the dynamic loader will ignore LD_PRELOAD (or the
                       equivalent) when running set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs,
                       effectively disabling intercept mode.  To prevent this from happening,
                       sudoers will not permit a set-user-ID or set-group-ID program to be run in
                       intercept mode unless intercept_allow_setid is set.  This flag has no
                       effect unless the intercept flag is enabled or the INTERCEPT tag has been
                       set for the command.  This flag is on by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.8 or higher.

     intercept_authenticate
                       If set, commands run by an intercepted process must be authenticated when
                       the user's time stamp is not current.  For example, if a shell is run with
                       intercept enabled, as soon as the invoking user's time stamp is out of
                       date, subsequent commands will need to be authenticated.  This flag has no
                       effect unless the intercept flag is enabled or the INTERCEPT tag has been
                       set for the command.  This flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.8 or higher.

     netgroup_tuple    If set, netgroup lookups will be performed using the full netgroup tuple:
                       host name, user name, and domain (if one is set).  Historically, sudo only
                       matched the user name and domain for netgroups used in a User_List and
                       only matched the host name and domain for netgroups used in a Host_List.
                       This flag is off by default.

     noexec            If set, all commands run via sudo will behave as if the NOEXEC tag has
                       been set, unless overridden by an EXEC tag.  See the description of EXEC
                       and NOEXEC above as well as the Preventing shell escapes section at the
                       end of this manual.  This flag is off by default.

     pam_acct_mgmt     On systems that use PAM for authentication, sudo will perform PAM account
                       validation for the invoking user by default.  The actual checks performed
                       depend on which PAM modules are configured.  If enabled, account
                       validation will be performed regardless of whether or not a password is
                       required.  This flag is on by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.28 or higher.

     pam_rhost         On systems that use PAM for authentication, sudo will set the PAM remote
                       host value to the name of the local host when the pam_rhost flag is
                       enabled.  On Linux systems, enabling pam_rhost may result in DNS lookups
                       of the local host name when PAM is initialized.  On Solaris versions prior
                       to Solaris 8, pam_rhost must be enabled if pam_ruser is also enabled to
                       avoid a crash in the Solaris PAM implementation.

                       This flag is off by default on systems other than Solaris.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

     pam_ruser         On systems that use PAM for authentication, sudo will set the PAM remote
                       user value to the name of the user that invoked sudo when the pam_ruser
                       flag is enabled.  This flag is on by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

     pam_session       On systems that use PAM for authentication, sudo will create a new PAM
                       session for the command to be run in.  Unless sudo is given the -i or -s
                       options, PAM session modules are run with the “silent” flag enabled.  This
                       prevents last login information from being displayed for every command on
                       some systems.  Disabling pam_session may be needed on older PAM
                       implementations or on operating systems where opening a PAM session
                       changes the utmp or wtmp files.  If PAM session support is disabled,
                       resource limits may not be updated for the command being run.  If
                       pam_session, pam_setcred, and use_pty are disabled, log_servers has not
                       been set and I/O logging has not been configured, sudo will execute the
                       command directly instead of running it as a child process.  This flag is
                       on by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.7 or higher.

     pam_setcred       On systems that use PAM for authentication, sudo will attempt to establish
                       credentials for the target user by default, if supported by the underlying
                       authentication system.  One example of a credential is a Kerberos ticket.
                       If pam_session, pam_setcred, and use_pty are disabled, log_servers has not
                       been set and I/O logging has not been configured, sudo will execute the
                       command directly instead of running it as a child process.  This flag is
                       on by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.8 or higher.

     passprompt_override
                       If set, the prompt specified by passprompt or the SUDO_PROMPT environment
                       variable will always be used and will replace the prompt provided by a PAM
                       module or other authentication method.  This flag is off by default.

     path_info         Normally, sudo will tell the user when a command could not be found in
                       their PATH environment variable.  Some sites may wish to disable this as
                       it could be used to gather information on the location of executables that
                       the normal user does not have access to.  The disadvantage is that if the
                       executable is simply not in the user's PATH, sudo will tell the user that
                       they are not allowed to run it, which can be confusing.  This flag is on
                       by default.

     preserve_groups   By default, sudo will initialize the group vector to the list of groups
                       the target user is in.  When preserve_groups is set, the user's existing
                       group vector is left unaltered.  The real and effective group-IDs,
                       however, are still set to match the target user.  This flag is off by
                       default.

     pwfeedback        By default, sudo reads the password like most other Unix programs, by
                       turning off echo until the user hits the return (or enter) key.  Some
                       users become confused by this as it appears to them that sudo has hung at
                       this point.  When pwfeedback is set, sudo will provide visual feedback
                       when the user presses a key.  Note that this does have a security impact
                       as an onlooker may be able to determine the length of the password being
                       entered.  This flag is off by default.

     requiretty        If set, sudo will only run when the user is logged in to a real tty.  When
                       this flag is set, sudo can only be run from a login session and not via
                       other means such as cron(8) or cgi-bin scripts.  This flag is off by
                       default.

     root_sudo         If set, root is allowed to run sudo too.  Disabling this prevents users
                       from “chaining” sudo commands to get a root shell by doing something like
                       “sudo sudo /bin/sh”.  Note, however, that turning off root_sudo will also
                       prevent root from running sudoedit.  Disabling root_sudo provides no real
                       additional security; it exists purely for historical reasons.  This flag
                       is on by default.

     rootpw            If set, sudo will prompt for the root password instead of the password of
                       the invoking user when running a command or editing a file.  This flag is
                       off by default.

     runas_allow_unknown_id
                       If enabled, allow matching of runas user and group IDs that are not
                       present in the password or group databases.  In addition to explicitly
                       matching unknown user or group IDs in a Runas_List, this option also
                       allows the ALL alias to match unknown IDs.  This flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.30 or higher.  Older
                       versions of sudo always allowed matching of unknown user and group IDs.

     runas_check_shell
                       If enabled, sudo will only run commands as a user whose shell appears in
                       the /etc/shells file, even if the invoking user's Runas_List would
                       otherwise permit it.  If no /etc/shells file is present, a system-
                       dependent list of built-in default shells is used.  On many operating
                       systems, system users such as “bin”, do not have a valid shell and this
                       flag can be used to prevent commands from being run as those users.  This
                       flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.30 or higher.

     runaspw           If set, sudo will prompt for the password of the user defined by the
                       runas_default option (defaults to root) instead of the password of the
                       invoking user when running a command or editing a file.  This flag is off
                       by default.

     selinux           If enabled, the user may specify an SELinux role and/or type to use when
                       running the command, as permitted by the SELinux policy.  If SELinux is
                       disabled on the system, this flag has no effect.  This flag is on by
                       default.

     set_home          If enabled and sudo is invoked with the -s option, the HOME environment
                       variable will be set to the home directory of the target user (which is
                       the root user unless the -u option is used).  This flag is largely
                       obsolete and has no effect unless the env_reset flag has been disabled or
                       HOME is present in the env_keep list, both of which are strongly
                       discouraged.  This flag is off by default.

     set_logname       Normally, sudo will set the LOGNAME and USER environment variables to the
                       name of the target user (usually root unless the -u option is given).
                       However, since some programs (including the RCS revision control system)
                       use LOGNAME to determine the real identity of the user, it may be
                       desirable to change this behavior.  This can be done by negating the
                       set_logname option.  Note that set_logname will have no effect if the
                       env_reset option has not been disabled and the env_keep list contains
                       LOGNAME or USER.  This flag is on by default.

     set_utmp          When enabled, sudo will create an entry in the utmp (or utmpx) file when a
                       pseudo-terminal is allocated.  A pseudo-terminal is allocated by sudo when
                       it is running in a terminal and one or more of the log_input, log_output,
                       or use_pty flags is enabled.  By default, the new entry will be a copy of
                       the user's existing utmp entry (if any), with the tty, time, type, and pid
                       fields updated.  This flag is on by default.

     setenv            Allow the user to disable the env_reset option from the command line via
                       the -E option.  Additionally, environment variables set via the command
                       line are not subject to the restrictions imposed by env_check, env_delete,
                       or env_keep.  As such, only trusted users should be allowed to set
                       variables in this manner.  This flag is off by default.

     shell_noargs      If set and sudo is invoked with no arguments it acts as if the -s option
                       had been given.  That is, it runs a shell as root (the shell is determined
                       by the SHELL environment variable if it is set, falling back on the shell
                       listed in the invoking user's /etc/passwd entry if not).  This flag is off
                       by default.

     stay_setuid       Normally, when sudo executes a command the real and effective user-IDs are
                       set to the target user (root by default).  This option changes that
                       behavior such that the real user-ID is left as the invoking user's user-
                       ID.  In other words, this makes sudo act as a set-user-ID wrapper.  This
                       can be useful on systems that disable some potentially dangerous
                       functionality when a program is run set-user-ID.  This option is only
                       effective on systems that support either the setreuid(2) or setresuid(2)
                       system call.  This flag is off by default.

     sudoedit_checkdir
                       If set, sudoedit will check all directory components of the path to be
                       edited for writability by the invoking user.  Symbolic links will not be
                       followed in writable directories and sudoedit will refuse to edit a file
                       located in a writable directory.  These restrictions are not enforced when
                       sudoedit is run by root.  On some systems, if all directory components of
                       the path to be edited are not readable by the target user, sudoedit will
                       be unable to edit the file.  This flag is on by default.

                       This setting was first introduced in version 1.8.15 but initially suffered
                       from a race condition.  The check for symbolic links in writable
                       intermediate directories was added in version 1.8.16.

     sudoedit_follow   By default, sudoedit will not follow symbolic links when opening files.
                       The sudoedit_follow option can be enabled to allow sudoedit to open
                       symbolic links.  It may be overridden on a per-command basis by the FOLLOW
                       and NOFOLLOW tags.  This flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.15 or higher.

     syslog_pid        When logging via syslog(3), include the process ID in the log entry.  This
                       flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.21 or higher.

     targetpw          If set, sudo will prompt for the password of the user specified by the -u
                       option (defaults to root) instead of the password of the invoking user
                       when running a command or editing a file.  Note that this flag precludes
                       the use of a user-ID not listed in the passwd database as an argument to
                       the -u option.  This flag is off by default.

     tty_tickets       If set, users must authenticate on a per-tty basis.  With this flag
                       enabled, sudo will use a separate record in the time stamp file for each
                       terminal.  If disabled, a single record is used for all login sessions.

                       This option has been superseded by the timestamp_type option.

     umask_override    If set, sudo will set the umask as specified in the sudoers file without
                       modification.  This makes it possible to specify a umask in the sudoers
                       file that is more permissive than the user's own umask and matches
                       historical behavior.  If umask_override is not set, sudo will set the
                       umask to be the union of the user's umask and what is specified in
                       sudoers.  This flag is off by default.

     use_netgroups     If set, netgroups (prefixed with ‘+’), may be used in place of a user or
                       host.  For LDAP-based sudoers, netgroup support requires an expensive sub-
                       string match on the server unless the NETGROUP_BASE directive is present
                       in the /etc/ldap.conf file.  If netgroups are not needed, this option can
                       be disabled to reduce the load on the LDAP server.  This flag is on by
                       default.

     use_pty           If set, and sudo is running in a terminal, the command will be run in a
                       pseudo-terminal (even if no I/O logging is being done).  If the sudo
                       process is not attached to a terminal, use_pty has no effect.

                       A malicious program run under sudo may be capable of injecting commands
                       into the user's terminal or running a background process that retains
                       access to the user's terminal device even after the main program has
                       finished executing.  By running the command in a separate pseudo-terminal,
                       this attack is no longer possible.  This flag is off by default.

     user_command_timeouts
                       If set, the user may specify a timeout on the command line.  If the
                       timeout expires before the command has exited, the command will be
                       terminated.  If a timeout is specified both in the sudoers file and on the
                       command line, the smaller of the two timeouts will be used.  See the
                       Timeout_Spec section for a description of the timeout syntax.  This flag
                       is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.20 or higher.

     utmp_runas        If set, sudo will store the name of the runas user when updating the utmp
                       (or utmpx) file.  By default, sudo stores the name of the invoking user.
                       This flag is off by default.

     visiblepw         By default, sudo will refuse to run if the user must enter a password but
                       it is not possible to disable echo on the terminal.  If the visiblepw flag
                       is set, sudo will prompt for a password even when it would be visible on
                       the screen.  This makes it possible to run things like “ssh somehost sudo
                       ls” since by default, ssh(1) does not allocate a tty when running a
                       command.  This flag is off by default.

     Integers:

     closefrom         Before it executes a command, sudo will close all open file descriptors
                       other than standard input, standard output, and standard error (file
                       descriptors 0-2).  The closefrom option can be used to specify a different
                       file descriptor at which to start closing.  The default is 3.

     command_timeout   The maximum amount of time a command is allowed to run before it is
                       terminated.  See the Timeout_Spec section for a description of the timeout
                       syntax.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.20 or higher.

     log_server_timeout
                       The maximum amount of time to wait when connecting to a log server or
                       waiting for a server response.  See the Timeout_Spec section for a
                       description of the timeout syntax.  The default value is 30 seconds.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

     maxseq            The maximum sequence number that will be substituted for the “%{seq}”
                       escape in the I/O log file (see the iolog_dir description below for more
                       information).  While the value substituted for “%{seq}” is in base 36,
                       maxseq itself should be expressed in decimal.  Values larger than
                       2176782336 (which corresponds to the base 36 sequence number “ZZZZZZ”)
                       will be silently truncated to 2176782336.  The default value is
                       2176782336.

                       Once the local sequence number reaches the value of maxseq, it will “roll
                       over” to zero, after which sudoers will truncate and re-use any existing
                       I/O log path names.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.7 or higher.

     passwd_tries      The number of tries a user gets to enter his/her password before sudo logs
                       the failure and exits.  The default is 3.

     syslog_maxlen     On many systems, syslog(3) has a relatively small log buffer.  IETF RFC
                       5424 states that syslog servers must support messages of at least 480
                       bytes and should support messages up to 2048 bytes.  By default, sudoers
                       creates log messages up to 980 bytes which corresponds to the historic BSD
                       syslog implementation which used a 1024 byte buffer to store the message,
                       date, hostname, and program name.  To prevent syslog messages from being
                       truncated, sudoers will split up log messages that are larger than
                       syslog_maxlen bytes.  When a message is split, additional parts will
                       include the string “(command continued)” after the user name and before
                       the continued command line arguments.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.19 or higher.

     Integers that can be used in a boolean context:

     loglinelen        Number of characters per line for the file log.  This value is used to
                       decide when to wrap lines for nicer log files.  This has no effect on the
                       syslog log file, only the file log.  The default is 80 (use 0 or negate
                       the option to disable word wrap).

     passwd_timeout    Number of minutes before the sudo password prompt times out, or 0 for no
                       timeout.  The timeout may include a fractional component if minute
                       granularity is insufficient, for example 2.5.  The default is 0.

     timestamp_timeout
                       Number of minutes that can elapse before sudo will ask for a passwd again.
                       The timeout may include a fractional component if minute granularity is
                       insufficient, for example 2.5.  The default is 15.  Set this to 0 to
                       always prompt for a password.  If set to a value less than 0 the user's
                       time stamp will not expire until the system is rebooted.  This can be used
                       to allow users to create or delete their own time stamps via “sudo -v” and
                       “sudo -k” respectively.

     umask             File mode creation mask to use when running the command.  Negate this
                       option or set it to 0777 to prevent sudoers from changing the umask.
                       Unless the umask_override flag is set, the actual umask will be the union
                       of the user's umask and the value of the umask setting, which defaults to
                       0022.  This guarantees that sudo never lowers the umask when running a
                       command.

                       If umask is explicitly set in sudoers, it will override any umask setting
                       in PAM or login.conf.  If umask is not set in sudoers, the umask specified
                       by PAM or login.conf will take precedence.  The umask setting in PAM is
                       not used for sudoedit, which does not create a new PAM session.

     Strings:

     authfail_message  Message that is displayed after a user fails to authenticate.  The message
                       may include the ‘%d’ escape which will expand to the number of failed
                       password attempts.  If set, it overrides the default message, %d incorrect
                       password attempt(s).

     badpass_message   Message that is displayed if a user enters an incorrect password.  The
                       default is Sorry, try again. unless insults are enabled.

     editor            A colon (‘:’) separated list of editors path names used by sudoedit and
                       visudo.  For sudoedit, this list is used to find an editor when none of
                       the SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables are set to an
                       editor that exists and is executable.  For visudo, it is used as a white
                       list of allowed editors; visudo will choose the editor that matches the
                       user's SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR environment variable if possible, or
                       the first editor in the list that exists and is executable if not.  Unless
                       invoked as sudoedit, sudo does not preserve the SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or
                       EDITOR environment variables unless they are present in the env_keep list
                       or the env_reset option is disabled.  The default is /usr/bin/editor.

     iolog_dir         The top-level directory to use when constructing the path name for the
                       input/output log directory.  Only used if the log_input or log_output
                       options are enabled or when the LOG_INPUT or LOG_OUTPUT tags are present
                       for a command.  The session sequence number, if any, is stored in the
                       directory.  The default is /var/log/sudo-io.

                       The following percent (‘%’) escape sequences are supported:

                       %{seq}
                             expanded to a monotonically increasing base-36 sequence number, such
                             as 0100A5, where every two digits are used to form a new directory,
                             e.g., 01/00/A5

                       %{user}
                             expanded to the invoking user's login name

                       %{group}
                             expanded to the name of the invoking user's real group-ID

                       %{runas_user}
                             expanded to the login name of the user the command will be run as
                             (e.g., root)

                       %{runas_group}
                             expanded to the group name of the user the command will be run as
                             (e.g., wheel)

                       %{hostname}
                             expanded to the local host name without the domain name

                       %{command}
                             expanded to the base name of the command being run

                       In addition, any escape sequences supported by the system's strftime(3)
                       function will be expanded.

                       To include a literal ‘%’ character, the string ‘%%’ should be used.

     iolog_file        The path name, relative to iolog_dir, in which to store input/output logs
                       when the log_input or log_output options are enabled or when the LOG_INPUT
                       or LOG_OUTPUT tags are present for a command.  Note that iolog_file may
                       contain directory components.  The default is “%{seq}”.

                       See the iolog_dir option above for a list of supported percent (‘%’)
                       escape sequences.

                       In addition to the escape sequences, path names that end in six or more Xs
                       will have the Xs replaced with a unique combination of digits and letters,
                       similar to the mktemp(3) function.

                       If the path created by concatenating iolog_dir and iolog_file already
                       exists, the existing I/O log file will be truncated and overwritten unless
                       iolog_file ends in six or more Xs.

     iolog_flush       If set, sudo will flush I/O log data to disk after each write instead of
                       buffering it.  This makes it possible to view the logs in real-time as the
                       program is executing but may significantly reduce the effectiveness of I/O
                       log compression.  This flag is off by default.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.20 or higher.

     iolog_group       The group name to look up when setting the group-ID on new I/O log files
                       and directories.  If iolog_group is not set, the primary group-ID of the
                       user specified by iolog_user is used.  If neither iolog_group nor
                       iolog_user are set, I/O log files and directories are created with group-
                       ID 0.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.19 or higher.

     iolog_mode        The file mode to use when creating I/O log files.  Mode bits for read and
                       write permissions for owner, group, or other are honored, everything else
                       is ignored.  The file permissions will always include the owner read and
                       write bits, even if they are not present in the specified mode.  When
                       creating I/O log directories, search (execute) bits are added to match the
                       read and write bits specified by iolog_mode.  Defaults to 0600 (read and
                       write by user only).

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.19 or higher.

     iolog_user        The user name to look up when setting the user and group-IDs on new I/O
                       log files and directories.  If iolog_group is set, it will be used instead
                       of the user's primary group-ID.  By default, I/O log files and directories
                       are created with user and group-ID 0.

                       This setting can be useful when the I/O logs are stored on a Network File
                       System (NFS) share.  Having a dedicated user own the I/O log files means
                       that sudoers does not write to the log files as user-ID 0, which is
                       usually not permitted by NFS.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.19 or higher.

     lecture_status_dir
                       The directory in which sudo stores per-user lecture status files.  Once a
                       user has received the lecture, a zero-length file is created in this
                       directory so that sudo will not lecture the user again.  This directory
                       should not be cleared when the system reboots.  The default is
                       /var/lib/sudo/lectured.

     log_server_cabundle
                       The path to a certificate authority bundle file, in PEM format, to use
                       instead of the system's default certificate authority database when
                       authenticating the log server.  The default is to use the system's default
                       certificate authority database.  This setting has no effect unless
                       log_servers is set and the remote log server is secured with TLS.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

     log_server_peer_cert
                       The path to the sudo client's certificate file, in PEM format.  This
                       setting is required when the remote log server is secured with TLS and
                       client certificate validation is enabled.  For sudo_logsrvd, client
                       certificate validation is controlled by the tls_checkpeer option, which
                       defaults to false.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

     log_server_peer_key
                       The path to the sudo client's private key file, in PEM format.  This
                       setting is required when the remote log server is secured with TLS and
                       client certificate validation is enabled.  For sudo_logsrvd, client
                       certificate validation is controlled by the tls_checkpeer option, which
                       defaults to false.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

     mailsub           Subject of the mail sent to the mailto user.  The escape %h will expand to
                       the host name of the machine.  Default is “*** SECURITY information for %h
                       ***”.

     noexec_file       As of sudo version 1.8.1 this option is no longer supported.  The path to
                       the noexec file should now be set in the sudo.conf(5) file.

     pam_askpass_service
                       On systems that use PAM for authentication, this is the service name used
                       when the -A option is specified.  The default value is either
                       “@pam_service@” or “sudo-i”, depending on whether or not the -i option is
                       also specified.  See the description of pam_service for more information.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.9 or higher.

     pam_login_service
                       On systems that use PAM for authentication, this is the service name used
                       when the -i option is specified.  The default value is “sudo-i”.  See the
                       description of pam_service for more information.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.8 or higher.

     pam_service       On systems that use PAM for authentication, the service name specifies the
                       PAM policy to apply.  This usually corresponds to an entry in the pam.conf
                       file or a file in the /etc/pam.d directory.  The default value is “sudo”.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.8 or higher.

     passprompt        The default prompt to use when asking for a password; can be overridden
                       via the -p option or the SUDO_PROMPT environment variable.  The following
                       percent (‘%’) escape sequences are supported:

                       %H    expanded to the local host name including the domain name (only if
                             the machine's host name is fully qualified or the fqdn option is
                             set)

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

                       %p    expanded to the user whose password is being asked for (respects the
                             rootpw, targetpw and runaspw flags in sudoers)

                       %U    expanded to the login name of the user the command will be run as
                             (defaults to root)

                       %u    expanded to the invoking user's login name

                       %%    two consecutive % characters are collapsed into a single % character

                       On systems that use PAM for authentication, passprompt will only be used
                       if the prompt provided by the PAM module matches the string “Password: ”
                       or “username's Password: ”.  This ensures that the passprompt setting does
                       not interfere with challenge-response style authentication.  The
                       passprompt_override flag can be used to change this behavior.

                       The default value is “[sudo] password for %p: ”.

     role              The default SELinux role to use when constructing a new security context
                       to run the command.  The default role may be overridden on a per-command
                       basis in the sudoers file or via command line options.  This option is
                       only available when sudo is built with SELinux support.

     runas_default     The default user to run commands as if the -u option is not specified on
                       the command line.  This defaults to root.

     sudoers_locale    Locale to use when parsing the sudoers file, logging commands, and sending
                       email.  Note that changing the locale may affect how sudoers is
                       interpreted.  Defaults to “C”.

     timestamp_type    sudoers uses per-user time stamp files for credential caching.  The
                       timestamp_type option can be used to specify the type of time stamp record
                       used.  It has the following possible values:

                       global  A single time stamp record is used for all of a user's login
                               sessions, regardless of the terminal or parent process ID.  An
                               additional record is used to serialize password prompts when sudo
                               is used multiple times in a pipeline, but this does not affect
                               authentication.

                       ppid    A single time stamp record is used for all processes with the same
                               parent process ID (usually the shell).  Commands run from the same
                               shell (or other common parent process) will not require a password
                               for timestamp_timeout minutes (15 by default).  Commands run via
                               sudo with a different parent process ID, for example from a shell
                               script, will be authenticated separately.

                       tty     One time stamp record is used for each terminal, which means that
                               a user's login sessions are authenticated separately.  If no
                               terminal is present, the behavior is the same as ppid.  Commands
                               run from the same terminal will not require a password for
                               timestamp_timeout minutes (15 by default).

                       kernel  The time stamp is stored in the kernel as an attribute of the
                               terminal device.  If no terminal is present, the behavior is the
                               same as ppid.  Negative timestamp_timeout values are not supported
                               and positive values are limited to a maximum of 60 minutes.  This
                               is currently only supported on OpenBSD.

                       The default value is tty.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.8.21 or higher.

     timestampdir      The directory in which sudo stores its time stamp files.  This directory
                       should be cleared when the system reboots.  The default is /run/sudo/ts.

     timestampowner    The owner of the lecture status directory, time stamp directory and all
                       files stored therein.  The default is root.

     type              The default SELinux type to use when constructing a new security context
                       to run the command.  The default type may be overridden on a per-command
                       basis in the sudoers file or via command line options.  This option is
                       only available when sudo is built with SELinux support.

     Strings that can be used in a boolean context:

     admin_flag    The admin_flag option specifies the path to a file that is created the first
                   time a user that is a member of the sudo or admin groups runs sudo.  Only
                   available if sudo is configured with the --enable-admin-flag option.  The
                   default value is ~/.sudo_as_admin_successful.

     env_file      The env_file option specifies the fully qualified path to a file containing
                   variables to be set in the environment of the program being run.  Entries in
                   this file should either be of the form “VARIABLE=value” or “export
                   VARIABLE=value”.  The value may optionally be enclosed in single or double
                   quotes.  Variables in this file are only added if the variable does not
                   already exist in the environment.  This file is considered to be part of the
                   security policy, its contents are not subject to other sudo environment
                   restrictions such as env_keep and env_check.

     exempt_group  Users in this group are exempt from password and PATH requirements.  The group
                   name specified should not include a % prefix.  This is not set by default.

     fdexec        Determines whether sudo will execute a command by its path or by an open file
                   descriptor.  It has the following possible values:

                   always  Always execute by file descriptor.

                   never   Never execute by file descriptor.

                   digest_only
                           Only execute by file descriptor if the command has an associated
                           digest in the sudoers file.

                   The default value is digest_only.  This avoids a time of check versus time of
                   use race condition when the command is located in a directory writable by the
                   invoking user.

                   Note that fdexec will change the first element of the argument vector for
                   scripts ($0 in the shell) due to the way the kernel runs script interpreters.
                   Instead of being a normal path, it will refer to a file descriptor.  For
                   example, /dev/fd/4 on Solaris and /proc/self/fd/4 on Linux.  A workaround is
                   to use the SUDO_COMMAND environment variable instead.

                   The fdexec setting is only used when the command is matched by path name.  It
                   has no effect if the command is matched by the built-in ALL alias.

                   This setting is only supported by version 1.8.20 or higher.  If the operating
                   system does not support the fexecve() system call, this setting has no effect.

     group_plugin  A string containing a sudoers group plugin with optional arguments.  The
                   string should consist of the plugin path, either fully-qualified or relative
                   to the /usr/libexec/sudo directory, followed by any configuration arguments
                   the plugin requires.  These arguments (if any) will be passed to the plugin's
                   initialization function.  If arguments are present, the string must be
                   enclosed in double quotes ("").

                   For more information see GROUP PROVIDER PLUGINS.

     lecture       This option controls when a short lecture will be printed along with the
                   password prompt.  It has the following possible values:

                   always  Always lecture the user.

                   never   Never lecture the user.

                   once    Only lecture the user the first time they run sudo.

                   If no value is specified, a value of once is implied.  Negating the option
                   results in a value of never being used.  The default value is never.

     lecture_file  Path to a file containing an alternate sudo lecture that will be used in place
                   of the standard lecture if the named file exists.  By default, sudo uses a
                   built-in lecture.

     listpw        This option controls when a password will be required when a user runs sudo
                   with the -l option.  It has the following possible values:

                   all       All the user's sudoers file entries for the current host must have
                             the NOPASSWD flag set to avoid entering a password.

                   always    The user must always enter a password to use the -l option.

                   any       At least one of the user's sudoers file entries for the current host
                             must have the NOPASSWD flag set to avoid entering a password.

                   never     The user need never enter a password to use the -l option.

                   If no value is specified, a value of any is implied.  Negating the option
                   results in a value of never being used.  The default value is any.

     log_format    The event log format.  Supported log formats are:

                   json      Logs in JSON format.  JSON log entries contain the full user details
                             as well as the execution environment if the command was allowed.
                             Due to limitations of the protocol, JSON events sent via syslog may
                             be truncated.

                   sudo      Traditional sudo-style logs, see LOG FORMAT for a description of the
                             log file format.

                   This setting affects logs sent via syslog(3) as well as the file specified by
                   the logfile setting, if any.  The default value is sudo.

     logfile       Path to the sudo log file (not the syslog log file).  Setting a path turns on
                   logging to a file; negating this option turns it off.  By default, sudo logs
                   via syslog.

     mailerflags   Flags to use when invoking mailer.  Defaults to -t.

     mailerpath    Path to mail program used to send warning mail.  Defaults to the path to
                   sendmail found at configure time.

     mailfrom      Address to use for the “from” address when sending warning and error mail.
                   The address should be enclosed in double quotes ("") to protect against sudo
                   interpreting the @ sign.  Defaults to the name of the user running sudo.

     mailto        Address to send warning and error mail to.  The address should be enclosed in
                   double quotes ("") to protect against sudo interpreting the @ sign.  Defaults
                   to root.

     rlimit_as     The maximum size to which the process's address space may grow (in bytes), if
                   supported by the operating system.  See Resource limits for more information.

     rlimit_core   The largest size core dump file that may be created (in bytes).  See Resource
                   limits for more information.  Defaults to 0 (no core dump created).

     rlimit_cpu    The maximum amount of CPU time that the process may use (in seconds).  See
                   Resource limits for more information.

     rlimit_data   The maximum size of the data segment for the process (in bytes).  See Resource
                   limits for more information.

     rlimit_fsize  The largest size file that the process may create (in bytes).  See Resource
                   limits for more information.

     rlimit_locks  The maximum number of locks that the process may establish, if supported by
                   the operating system.  See Resource limits for more information.

     rlimit_memlock
                   The maximum size that the process may lock in memory (in bytes), if supported
                   by the operating system.  See Resource limits for more information.

     rlimit_nofile
                   The maximum number of files that the process may have open.  See Resource
                   limits for more information.

     rlimit_nproc  The maximum number of processes that the user may run simultaneously.  See
                   Resource limits for more information.

     rlimit_rss    The maximum size to which the process's resident set size may grow (in bytes).
                   See Resource limits for more information.

     rlimit_stack  The maximum size to which the process's stack may grow (in bytes).  See
                   Resource limits for more information.

     restricted_env_file
                   The restricted_env_file option specifies the fully qualified path to a file
                   containing variables to be set in the environment of the program being run.
                   Entries in this file should either be of the form “VARIABLE=value” or “export
                   VARIABLE=value”.  The value may optionally be enclosed in single or double
                   quotes.  Variables in this file are only added if the variable does not
                   already exist in the environment.  Unlike env_file, the file's contents are
                   not trusted and are processed in a manner similar to that of the invoking
                   user's environment.  If env_reset is enabled, variables in the file will only
                   be added if they are matched by either the env_check or env_keep list.  If
                   env_reset is disabled, variables in the file are added as long as they are not
                   matched by the env_delete list.  In either case, the contents of
                   restricted_env_file are processed before the contents of env_file.

     runchroot     If set, sudo will use this value for the root directory when running a
                   command.  The special value “*” will allow the user to specify the root
                   directory via sudo's -R option.  See the Chroot_Spec section for more details.

                   It is only possible to use runchroot as a command-specific Defaults setting if
                   the command exists with the same path both inside and outside the chroot jail.
                   This restriction does not apply to generic, host, or user-based Defaults
                   settings or to a Cmnd_Spec that includes a Chroot_Spec.

                   This setting is only supported by version 1.9.3 or higher.

     runcwd        If set, sudo will use this value for the working directory when running a
                   command.  The special value “*” will allow the user to specify the working
                   directory via sudo's -D option.  See the Chdir_Spec section for more details.

                   This setting is only supported by version 1.9.3 or higher.

     secure_path   If set, sudo will use this value in place of the user's PATH environment
                   variable.  This option can be used to reset the PATH to a known good value
                   that contains directories for system administrator commands such as /usr/sbin.

                   Users in the group specified by the exempt_group option are not affected by
                   secure_path.  This option is not set by default.

     syslog        Syslog facility if syslog is being used for logging (negate to disable syslog
                   logging).  Defaults to authpriv.

                   The following syslog facilities are supported: authpriv (if your OS supports
                   it), auth, daemon, user, local0, local1, local2, local3, local4, local5,
                   local6, and local7.

     syslog_badpri
                   Syslog priority to use when the user is not allowed to run a command or when
                   authentication is unsuccessful.  Defaults to alert.

                   The following syslog priorities are supported: alert, crit, debug, emerg, err,
                   info, notice, warning, and none.  Negating the option or setting it to a value
                   of none will disable logging of unsuccessful commands.

     syslog_goodpri
                   Syslog priority to use when the user is allowed to run a command and
                   authentication is successful.  Defaults to notice.

                   See syslog_badpri for the list of supported syslog priorities.  Negating the
                   option or setting it to a value of none will disable logging of successful
                   commands.

     verifypw      This option controls when a password will be required when a user runs sudo
                   with the -v option.  It has the following possible values:

                   all     All the user's sudoers file entries for the current host must have the
                           NOPASSWD flag set to avoid entering a password.

                   always  The user must always enter a password to use the -v option.

                   any     At least one of the user's sudoers file entries for the current host
                           must have the NOPASSWD flag set to avoid entering a password.

                   never   The user need never enter a password to use the -v option.

                   If no value is specified, a value of all is implied.  Negating the option
                   results in a value of never being used.  The default value is all.

     Lists that can be used in a boolean context:

     env_check         Environment variables to be removed from the user's environment unless
                       they are considered “safe”.  For all variables except TZ, “safe” means
                       that the variable's value does not contain any ‘%’ or ‘/’ characters.
                       This can be used to guard against printf-style format vulnerabilities in
                       poorly-written programs.  The TZ variable is considered unsafe if any of
                       the following are true:

                         It consists of a fully-qualified path name, optionally prefixed with a
                          colon (‘:’), that does not match the location of the zoneinfo
                          directory.

                         It contains a .. path element.

                         It contains white space or non-printable characters.

                         It is longer than the value of PATH_MAX.

                       The argument may be a double-quoted, space-separated list or a single
                       value without double-quotes.  The list can be replaced, added to, deleted
                       from, or disabled by using the =, +=, -=, and ! operators respectively.
                       Regardless of whether the env_reset option is enabled or disabled,
                       variables specified by env_check will be preserved in the environment if
                       they pass the aforementioned check.  The global list of environment
                       variables to check is displayed when sudo is run by root with the -V
                       option.

     env_delete        Environment variables to be removed from the user's environment when the
                       env_reset option is not in effect.  The argument may be a double-quoted,
                       space-separated list or a single value without double-quotes.  The list
                       can be replaced, added to, deleted from, or disabled by using the =, +=,
                       -=, and ! operators respectively.  The global list of environment
                       variables to remove is displayed when sudo is run by root with the -V
                       option.  Note that many operating systems will remove potentially
                       dangerous variables from the environment of any set-user-ID process (such
                       as sudo).

     env_keep          Environment variables to be preserved in the user's environment when the
                       env_reset option is in effect.  This allows fine-grained control over the
                       environment sudo-spawned processes will receive.  The argument may be a
                       double-quoted, space-separated list or a single value without double-
                       quotes.  The list can be replaced, added to, deleted from, or disabled by
                       using the =, +=, -=, and ! operators respectively.  The global list of
                       variables to keep is displayed when sudo is run by root with the -V
                       option.

                       Preserving the HOME environment variable has security implications since
                       many programs use it when searching for configuration or data files.
                       Adding HOME to env_keep may enable a user to run unrestricted commands via
                       sudo and is strongly discouraged.  Users wishing to edit files with sudo
                       should run sudoedit (or sudo -e) to get their accustomed editor
                       configuration instead of invoking the editor directly.

     log_servers       A list of one or more servers to use for remote event and I/O log storage,
                       separated by white space.  Log servers must be running sudo_logsrvd or
                       another service that implements the protocol described by
                       sudo_logsrv.proto(5).

                       Server addresses should be of the form “host[:port][(tls)]”.  The host
                       portion may be a host name, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6 address in square
                       brackets.

                       If the optional tls flag is present, the connection will be secured with
                       Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.2 or 1.3.  Versions of TLS prior
                       to 1.2 are not supported.

                       If a port is specified, it may either be a port number or a well-known
                       service name as defined by the system service name database.  If no port
                       is specified, port 30343 will be used for plaintext connections and port
                       30344 will be used for TLS connections.

                       When log_servers is set, event log data will be logged both locally (see
                       the syslog and log_file settings) as well as remotely, but I/O log data
                       will only be logged remotely.  If multiple hosts are specified, they will
                       be attempted in reverse order.  If no log servers are available, the user
                       will not be able to run a command unless either the ignore_iolog_errors
                       flag (I/O logging enabled) or the ignore_log_errors flag (I/O logging
                       disabled) is set.  Likewise, if the connection to the log server is
                       interrupted while sudo is running, the command will be terminated unless
                       the ignore_iolog_errors flag (I/O logging enabled) or the
                       ignore_log_errors flag (I/O logging disabled) is set.

                       This setting is only supported by version 1.9.0 or higher.

GROUP PROVIDER PLUGINS

     The sudoers plugin supports its own plugin interface to allow non-Unix group lookups which
     can query a group source other than the standard Unix group database.  This can be used to
     implement support for the nonunix_group syntax described earlier.

     Group provider plugins are specified via the group_plugin setting.  The argument to
     group_plugin should consist of the plugin path, either fully-qualified or relative to the
     /usr/libexec/sudo directory, followed by any configuration options the plugin requires.
     These options (if specified) will be passed to the plugin's initialization function.  If
     options are present, the string must be enclosed in double quotes ("").

     The following group provider plugins are installed by default:

     group_file
               The group_file plugin supports an alternate group file that uses the same syntax
               as the /etc/group file.  The path to the group file should be specified as an
               option to the plugin.  For example, if the group file to be used is
               /etc/sudo-group:

               Defaults group_plugin="group_file.so /etc/sudo-group"

     system_group
               The system_group plugin supports group lookups via the standard C library
               functions getgrnam() and getgrid().  This plugin can be used in instances where
               the user belongs to groups not present in the user's supplemental group vector.
               This plugin takes no options:

               Defaults group_plugin=system_group.so

     The group provider plugin API is described in detail in sudo_plugin(5).

LOG FORMAT

     sudoers can log events in either JSON or sudo format, this section describes the sudo log
     format.  Depending on sudoers configuration, sudoers can log events via syslog(3), to a
     local log file, or both.  The log format is almost identical in both cases.  Any control
     characters present in the log data are formatted in octal with a leading ‘#’ character.  For
     example, a horizontal tab is stored as ‘#011’ and an embedded carriage return is stored as
     ‘#015’.  In addition, space characters in the command path are stored as ‘#040’.  Command
     line arguments that contain spaces are enclosed in single quotes ('').  This makes it
     possible to distinguish multiple command line arguments from a single argument that contains
     spaces.  Literal single quotes and backslash characters (‘\’) in command line arguments are
     escaped with a backslash.

   Accepted command log entries
     Commands that sudo runs are logged using the following format (split into multiple lines for
     readability):

         date hostname progname: username : TTY=ttyname ; CHROOT=chroot ; \
             PWD=cwd ; USER=runasuser ; GROUP=runasgroup ; TSID=logid ; \
             ENV=env_vars COMMAND=command

     Where the fields are as follows:

     date          The date the command was run.  Typically, this is in the format “MMM, DD,
                   HH:MM:SS”.  If logging via syslog(3), the actual date format is controlled by
                   the syslog daemon.  If logging to a file and the log_year option is enabled,
                   the date will also include the year.

     hostname      The name of the host sudo was run on.  This field is only present when logging
                   via syslog(3).

     progname      The name of the program, usually sudo or sudoedit.  This field is only present
                   when logging via syslog(3).

     username      The login name of the user who ran sudo.

     ttyname       The short name of the terminal (e.g., “console”, “tty01”, or “pts/0”) sudo was
                   run on, or “unknown” if there was no terminal present.

     chroot        The root directory that the command was run in, if one was specified.

     cwd           The current working directory that sudo was run in.

     runasuser     The user the command was run as.

     runasgroup    The group the command was run as if one was specified on the command line.

     logid         An I/O log identifier that can be used to replay the command's output.  This
                   is only present when the log_input or log_output option is enabled.

     env_vars      A list of environment variables specified on the command line, if specified.

     command       The actual command that was executed, including any command line arguments.

     Messages are logged using the locale specified by sudoers_locale, which defaults to the “C”
     locale.

   Denied command log entries
     If the user is not allowed to run the command, the reason for the denial will follow the
     user name.  Possible reasons include:

     user NOT in sudoers
       The user is not listed in the sudoers file.

     user NOT authorized on host
       The user is listed in the sudoers file but is not allowed to run commands on the host.

     command not allowed
       The user is listed in the sudoers file for the host but they are not allowed to run the
       specified command.

     3 incorrect password attempts
       The user failed to enter their password after 3 tries.  The actual number of tries will
       vary based on the number of failed attempts and the value of the passwd_tries option.

     a password is required
       The -n option was specified but a password was required.

     sorry, you are not allowed to set the following environment variables
       The user specified environment variables on the command line that were not allowed by
       sudoers.

   Error log entries
     If an error occurs, sudoers will log a message and, in most cases, send a message to the
     administrator via email.  Possible errors include:

     parse error in /etc/sudoers near line N
       sudoers encountered an error when parsing the specified file.  In some cases, the actual
       error may be one line above or below the line number listed, depending on the type of
       error.

     problem with defaults entries
       The sudoers file contains one or more unknown Defaults settings.  This does not prevent
       sudo from running, but the sudoers file should be checked using visudo.

     timestamp owner (username): No such user
       The time stamp directory owner, as specified by the timestampowner setting, could not be
       found in the password database.

     unable to open/read /etc/sudoers
       The sudoers file could not be opened for reading.  This can happen when the sudoers file
       is located on a remote file system that maps user-ID 0 to a different value.  Normally,
       sudoers tries to open the sudoers file using group permissions to avoid this problem.
       Consider either changing the ownership of /etc/sudoers or adding an argument like
       “sudoers_uid=N” (where ‘N’ is the user-ID that owns the sudoers file) to the end of the
       sudoers Plugin line in the sudo.conf(5) file.

     unable to stat /etc/sudoers
       The /etc/sudoers file is missing.

     /etc/sudoers is not a regular file
       The /etc/sudoers file exists but is not a regular file or symbolic link.

     /etc/sudoers is owned by uid N, should be 0
       The sudoers file has the wrong owner.  If you wish to change the sudoers file owner,
       please add “sudoers_uid=N” (where ‘N’ is the user-ID that owns the sudoers file) to the
       sudoers Plugin line in the sudo.conf(5) file.

     /etc/sudoers is world writable
       The permissions on the sudoers file allow all users to write to it.  The sudoers file must
       not be world-writable, the default file mode is 0440 (readable by owner and group,
       writable by none).  The default mode may be changed via the “sudoers_mode” option to the
       sudoers Plugin line in the sudo.conf(5) file.

     /etc/sudoers is owned by gid N, should be 1
       The sudoers file has the wrong group ownership.  If you wish to change the sudoers file
       group ownership, please add “sudoers_gid=N” (where ‘N’ is the group-ID that owns the
       sudoers file) to the sudoers Plugin line in the sudo.conf(5) file.

     unable to open /run/sudo/ts/username
       sudoers was unable to read or create the user's time stamp file.  This can happen when
       timestampowner is set to a user other than root and the mode on /run/sudo is not
       searchable by group or other.  The default mode for /run/sudo is 0711.

     unable to write to /run/sudo/ts/username
       sudoers was unable to write to the user's time stamp file.

     /run/sudo/ts is owned by uid X, should be Y
       The time stamp directory is owned by a user other than timestampowner.  This can occur
       when the value of timestampowner has been changed.  sudoers will ignore the time stamp
       directory until the owner is corrected.

     /run/sudo/ts is group writable
       The time stamp directory is group-writable; it should be writable only by timestampowner.
       The default mode for the time stamp directory is 0700.  sudoers will ignore the time stamp
       directory until the mode is corrected.

   Notes on logging via syslog
     By default, sudoers logs messages via syslog(3).  The date, hostname, and progname fields
     are added by the system's syslog() function, not sudoers itself.  As such, they may vary in
     format on different systems.

     The maximum size of syslog messages varies from system to system.  The syslog_maxlen setting
     can be used to change the maximum syslog message size from the default value of 980 bytes.
     For more information, see the description of syslog_maxlen.

   Notes on logging to a file
     If the logfile option is set, sudoers will log to a local file, such as /var/log/sudo.  When
     logging to a file, sudoers uses a format similar to syslog(3), with a few important
     differences:

     1.   The progname field is not present.

     2.   The hostname is only logged if the log_host option is enabled.

     3.   The date does not include the year unless the log_year option is enabled.

     4.   Lines that are longer than loglinelen characters (80 by default) are word-wrapped and
          continued on the next line with a four character indent.  This makes entries easier to
          read for a human being, but makes it more difficult to use grep(1) on the log files.
          If the loglinelen option is set to 0 (or negated with a ‘!’), word wrap will be
          disabled.

I/O LOG FILES

     When I/O logging is enabled, sudo will run the command in a pseudo-terminal and log all user
     input and/or output, depending on which options are enabled.  I/O can be logged either to
     the local machine or to a remote log server.  For local logs, I/O is logged to the directory
     specified by the iolog_dir option (/var/log/sudo-io by default) using a unique session ID
     that is included in the sudo log line, prefixed with “TSID=”.  The iolog_file option may be
     used to control the format of the session ID.  For remote logs, the log_servers setting is
     used to specify one or more log servers running sudo_logsrvd or another server that
     implements the protocol described by sudo_logsrv.proto(5).

     For both local and remote I/O logs, each log is stored in a separate directory that contains
     the following files:

     log       A text file containing information about the command.  The first line consists of
               the following colon-delimited fields: the time the command was run, the name of
               the user who ran sudo, the name of the target user, the name of the target group
               (optional), the terminal that sudo was run from, and the number of lines and
               columns of the terminal.  The second and third lines contain the working directory
               the command was run from and the path name of the command itself (with arguments
               if present).

     log.json  A JSON-formatted file containing information about the command.  This is similar
               to the log file but contains additional information and is easily extensible.  The
               log.json file will be used by sudoreplay(8) in preference to the log file if it
               exists.  The file may contain the following elements:

               timestamp
                         A JSON object containing time the command was run.  It consists of two
                         values, seconds and nanoseconds.

               columns   The number of columns of the terminal the command ran on, or zero if no
                         terminal was present.

               command   The fully-qualified path of the command that was run.

               lines     The number of lines of the terminal the command ran on, or zero if no
                         terminal was present.

               runargv   A JSON array representing the command's argument vector as passed to the
                         execve() system call.

               runenv    A JSON array representing the command's environment as passed to the
                         execve() system call.

               rungid    The group ID the command ran as.  This element is only present when the
                         user specifies a group on the command line.

               rungroup  The name of the group the command ran as.  This element is only present
                         when the user specifies a group on the command line.

               runuid    The user ID the command ran as.

               runuser   The name of the user the command ran as.

               submitcwd
                         The current working directory at the time sudo was run.

               submithost
                         The name of the host the command was run on.

               submituser
                         The name of the user who ran the command via sudo.

               ttyname   The path name of the terminal the user invoked sudo from.  If the
                         command was run in a pseudo-terminal, ttyname will be different from the
                         terminal the command actually ran in.

     timing    Timing information used to replay the session.  Each line consists of the I/O log
               entry type and amount of time since the last entry, followed by type-specific
               data.  The I/O log entry types and their corresponding type-specific data are:

               0     standard input, number of bytes in the entry
               1     standard output, number of bytes in the entry
               2     standard error, number of bytes in the entry
               3     terminal input, number of bytes in the entry
               4     terminal output, number of bytes in the entry
               5     window change, new number lines and columns
               6     bug compatibility for sudo 1.8.7 terminal output
               7     command suspend or resume, signal received

     ttyin     Raw input from the user's terminal, exactly as it was received.  No post-
               processing is performed.  For manual viewing, you may wish to convert carriage
               return characters in the log to line feeds.  For example: ‘gunzip -c ttyin | tr
               "\r" "\n"’

     stdin     The standard input when no terminal is present, or input redirected from a pipe or
               file.

     ttyout    Output from the pseudo-terminal (what the command writes to the screen).  Note
               that terminal-specific post-processing is performed before the data is logged.
               This means that, for example, line feeds are usually converted to line
               feed/carriage return pairs and tabs may be expanded to spaces.

     stdout    The standard output when no terminal is present, or output redirected to a pipe or
               file.

     stderr    The standard error redirected to a pipe or file.

     All files other than log are compressed in gzip format unless the compress_io flag has been
     disabled.  Due to buffering, it is not normally possible to display the I/O logs in real-
     time as the program is executing.  The I/O log data will not be complete until the program
     run by sudo has exited or has been terminated by a signal.  The iolog_flush flag can be used
     to disable buffering, in which case I/O log data is written to disk as soon as it is
     available.  The output portion of an I/O log file can be viewed with the sudoreplay(8)
     utility, which can also be used to list or search the available logs.

     Note that user input may contain sensitive information such as passwords (even if they are
     not echoed to the screen), which will be stored in the log file unencrypted.  In most cases,
     logging the command output via log_output or LOG_OUTPUT is all that is required.

     Since each session's I/O logs are stored in a separate directory, traditional log rotation
     utilities cannot be used to limit the number of I/O logs.  The simplest way to limit the
     number of I/O is by setting the maxseq option to the maximum number of logs you wish to
     store.  Once the I/O log sequence number reaches maxseq, it will be reset to zero and
     sudoers will truncate and re-use any existing I/O logs.

FILES

     /etc/sudo.conf            Sudo front-end configuration

     /etc/sudoers              List of who can run what

     /etc/group                Local groups file

     /etc/netgroup             List of network groups

     /var/log/sudo-io          I/O log files

     /run/sudo/ts              Directory containing time stamps for the sudoers security policy

     /var/lib/sudo/lectured    Directory containing lecture status files for the sudoers security
                               policy

     /etc/environment          Initial environment for -i mode on AIX and Linux systems

EXAMPLES

     Below are example sudoers file entries.  Admittedly, some of these are a bit contrived.
     First, we allow a few environment variables to pass and then define our aliases:

     # Run X applications through sudo; HOME is used to find the
     # .Xauthority file.  Note that other programs use HOME to find
     # configuration files and this may lead to privilege escalation!
     Defaults env_keep += "DISPLAY HOME"

     # User alias specification
     User_Alias      FULLTIMERS = millert, mikef, dowdy
     User_Alias      PARTTIMERS = bostley, jwfox, crawl
     User_Alias      WEBADMIN = will, wendy, wim

     # Runas alias specification
     Runas_Alias     OP = root, operator
     Runas_Alias     DB = oracle, sybase
     Runas_Alias     ADMINGRP = adm, oper

     # Host alias specification
     Host_Alias      SPARC = bigtime, eclipse, moet, anchor :\
                     SGI = grolsch, dandelion, black :\
                     ALPHA = widget, thalamus, foobar :\
                     HPPA = boa, nag, python
     Host_Alias      CUNETS = 128.138.0.0/255.255.0.0
     Host_Alias      CSNETS = 128.138.243.0, 128.138.204.0/24, 128.138.242.0
     Host_Alias      SERVERS = primary, mail, www, ns
     Host_Alias      CDROM = orion, perseus, hercules

     # Cmnd alias specification
     Cmnd_Alias      DUMPS = /usr/bin/mt, /usr/sbin/dump, /usr/sbin/rdump,\
                             /usr/sbin/restore, /usr/sbin/rrestore,\
                             sha224:0GomF8mNN3wlDt1HD9XldjJ3SNgpFdbjO1+NsQ== \
                             /home/operator/bin/start_backups
     Cmnd_Alias      KILL = /usr/bin/kill
     Cmnd_Alias      PRINTING = /usr/sbin/lpc, /usr/bin/lprm
     Cmnd_Alias      SHUTDOWN = /usr/sbin/shutdown
     Cmnd_Alias      HALT = /usr/sbin/halt
     Cmnd_Alias      REBOOT = /usr/sbin/reboot
     Cmnd_Alias      SHELLS = /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/ksh,\
                              /usr/local/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/rsh,\
                              /usr/local/bin/zsh
     Cmnd_Alias      SU = /usr/bin/su
     Cmnd_Alias      PAGERS = /usr/bin/more, /usr/bin/pg, /usr/bin/less

     Here we override some of the compiled in default values.  We want sudo to log via syslog(3)
     using the auth facility in all cases and for commands to be run with the target user's home
     directory as the working directory.  We don't want to subject the full time staff to the
     sudo lecture and we want to allow them to run commands in a chroot(2) “sandbox” via the -R
     option.  User millert need not provide a password and we don't want to reset the LOGNAME or
     USER environment variables when running commands as root.  Additionally, on the machines in
     the SERVERS Host_Alias, we keep an additional local log file and make sure we log the year
     in each log line since the log entries will be kept around for several years.  Lastly, we
     disable shell escapes for the commands in the PAGERS Cmnd_Alias (/usr/bin/more, /usr/bin/pg
     and /usr/bin/less).  Note that this will not effectively constrain users with sudo ALL
     privileges.

     # Override built-in defaults
     Defaults                syslog=auth,runcwd=~
     Defaults>root           !set_logname
     Defaults:FULLTIMERS     !lecture,runchroot=*
     Defaults:millert        !authenticate
     Defaults@SERVERS        log_year, logfile=/var/log/sudo.log
     Defaults!PAGERS         noexec

     The User specification is the part that actually determines who may run what.

     root            ALL = (ALL) ALL
     %wheel          ALL = (ALL) ALL

     We let root and any user in group wheel run any command on any host as any user.

     FULLTIMERS      ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

     Full time sysadmins (millert, mikef, and dowdy) may run any command on any host without
     authenticating themselves.

     PARTTIMERS      ALL = ALL

     Part time sysadmins bostley, jwfox, and crawl) may run any command on any host but they must
     authenticate themselves first (since the entry lacks the NOPASSWD tag).

     jack            CSNETS = ALL

     The user jack may run any command on the machines in the CSNETS alias (the networks
     128.138.243.0, 128.138.204.0, and 128.138.242.0).  Of those networks, only 128.138.204.0 has
     an explicit netmask (in CIDR notation) indicating it is a class C network.  For the other
     networks in CSNETS, the local machine's netmask will be used during matching.

     lisa            CUNETS = ALL

     The user lisa may run any command on any host in the CUNETS alias (the class B network
     128.138.0.0).

     operator        ALL = DUMPS, KILL, SHUTDOWN, HALT, REBOOT, PRINTING,\
                     sudoedit /etc/printcap, /usr/oper/bin/

     The operator user may run commands limited to simple maintenance.  Here, those are commands
     related to backups, killing processes, the printing system, shutting down the system, and
     any commands in the directory /usr/oper/bin/.  Note that one command in the DUMPS Cmnd_Alias
     includes a sha224 digest, /home/operator/bin/start_backups.  This is because the directory
     containing the script is writable by the operator user.  If the script is modified
     (resulting in a digest mismatch) it will no longer be possible to run it via sudo.

     joe             ALL = /usr/bin/su operator

     The user joe may only su(1) to operator.

     pete            HPPA = /usr/bin/passwd [A-Za-z]*, !/usr/bin/passwd *root*

     %opers          ALL = (: ADMINGRP) /usr/sbin/

     Users in the opers group may run commands in /usr/sbin/ as themselves with any group in the
     ADMINGRP Runas_Alias (the adm and oper groups).

     The user pete is allowed to change anyone's password except for root on the HPPA machines.
     Because command line arguments are matched as a single, concatenated string, the ‘*’
     wildcard will match multiple words.  This example assumes that passwd(1) does not take
     multiple user names on the command line.  Note that on GNU systems, options to passwd(1) may
     be specified after the user argument.  As a result, this rule will also allow:

         passwd username --expire

     which may not be desirable.

     bob             SPARC = (OP) ALL : SGI = (OP) ALL

     The user bob may run anything on the SPARC and SGI machines as any user listed in the OP
     Runas_Alias (root and operator.)

     jim             +biglab = ALL

     The user jim may run any command on machines in the biglab netgroup.  sudo knows that
     “biglab” is a netgroup due to the ‘+’ prefix.

     +secretaries    ALL = PRINTING, /usr/bin/adduser, /usr/bin/rmuser

     Users in the secretaries netgroup need to help manage the printers as well as add and remove
     users, so they are allowed to run those commands on all machines.

     fred            ALL = (DB) NOPASSWD: ALL

     The user fred can run commands as any user in the DB Runas_Alias (oracle or sybase) without
     giving a password.

     john            ALPHA = /usr/bin/su [!-]*, !/usr/bin/su *root*

     On the ALPHA machines, user john may su to anyone except root but he is not allowed to
     specify any options to the su(1) command.

     jen             ALL, !SERVERS = ALL

     The user jen may run any command on any machine except for those in the SERVERS Host_Alias
     (primary, mail, www, and ns).

     jill            SERVERS = /usr/bin/, !SU, !SHELLS

     For any machine in the SERVERS Host_Alias, jill may run any commands in the directory
     /usr/bin/ except for those commands belonging to the SU and SHELLS Cmnd_Aliases.  While not
     specifically mentioned in the rule, the commands in the PAGERS Cmnd_Alias all reside in
     /usr/bin and have the noexec option set.

     steve           CSNETS = (operator) /usr/local/op_commands/

     The user steve may run any command in the directory /usr/local/op_commands/ but only as user
     operator.

     matt            valkyrie = KILL

     On his personal workstation, valkyrie, matt needs to be able to kill hung processes.

     WEBADMIN        www = (www) ALL, (root) /usr/bin/su www

     On the host www, any user in the WEBADMIN User_Alias (will, wendy, and wim), may run any
     command as user www (which owns the web pages) or simply su(1) to www.

     ALL             CDROM = NOPASSWD: /sbin/umount /CDROM,\
                     /sbin/mount -o nosuid\,nodev /dev/cd0a /CDROM

     Any user may mount or unmount a CD-ROM on the machines in the CDROM Host_Alias (orion,
     perseus, hercules) without entering a password.  This is a bit tedious for users to type, so
     it is a prime candidate for encapsulating in a shell script.

SECURITY NOTES

   Limitations of the ‘!’ operator
     It is generally not effective to “subtract” commands from ALL using the ‘!’ operator.  A
     user can trivially circumvent this by copying the desired command to a different name and
     then executing that.  For example:

     bill    ALL = ALL, !SU, !SHELLS

     Doesn't really prevent bill from running the commands listed in SU or SHELLS since he can
     simply copy those commands to a different name, or use a shell escape from an editor or
     other program.  Therefore, these kind of restrictions should be considered advisory at best
     (and reinforced by policy).

     In general, if a user has sudo ALL there is nothing to prevent them from creating their own
     program that gives them a root shell (or making their own copy of a shell) regardless of any
     ‘!’ elements in the user specification.

   Security implications of fast_glob
     If the fast_glob option is in use, it is not possible to reliably negate commands where the
     path name includes globbing (aka wildcard) characters.  This is because the C library's
     fnmatch(3) function cannot resolve relative paths.  While this is typically only an
     inconvenience for rules that grant privileges, it can result in a security issue for rules
     that subtract or revoke privileges.

     For example, given the following sudoers file entry:

     john    ALL = /usr/bin/passwd [a-zA-Z0-9]*, /usr/bin/chsh [a-zA-Z0-9]*,\
                   /usr/bin/chfn [a-zA-Z0-9]*, !/usr/bin/* root

     User john can still run /usr/bin/passwd root if fast_glob is enabled by changing to /usr/bin
     and running ./passwd root instead.

   Preventing shell escapes
     Once sudo executes a program, that program is free to do whatever it pleases, including run
     other programs.  This can be a security issue since it is not uncommon for a program to
     allow shell escapes, which lets a user bypass sudo's access control and logging.  Common
     programs that permit shell escapes include shells (obviously), editors, paginators, mail,
     and terminal programs.

     There are four basic approaches to this problem:

     restrict  Avoid giving users access to commands that allow the user to run arbitrary
               commands.  Many editors have a restricted mode where shell escapes are disabled,
               though sudoedit is a better solution to running editors via sudo.  Due to the
               large number of programs that offer shell escapes, restricting users to the set of
               programs that do not is often unworkable.

     intercept
               Many systems that support shared libraries have the ability to override default
               library functions by pointing an environment variable (usually LD_PRELOAD) to an
               alternate shared library.  On such systems, sudo's intercept functionality can be
               used to transparently intercept an attempt to run a new command, allow or deny it
               based on sudoers rules, and log the result.  For example, this can be used to
               restrict the commands run from within a privileged shell.  Note, however, that
               this applies only to dynamically-linked executables.  Statically-linked
               executables and executables running under binary emulation are not affected.
               Also, most shells support built-in commands and the ability to read or write
               sensitive files that cannot be intercepted by sudo.

               Currently, sudo's intercept functionality only works for programs that use the
               execl(), execle(), execlp(), execv(), execve(), execvp(), or execvpe() library
               functions to run the new command.  This may be expanded in a future release of
               sudo.  Because most dynamic loaders ignore LD_PRELOAD (or the equivalent) when
               running set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs, sudoers will not permit such
               programs to be run in intercept mode.

               The intercept feature is known to work on Solaris, *BSD, Linux, macOS, HP-UX 11.x
               and AIX 5.3 and above.  It should be supported on most operating systems that
               support the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.  Check your operating system's manual
               pages for the dynamic linker (usually ld.so, ld.so.1, dyld, dld.sl, rld, or
               loader) to see if LD_PRELOAD is supported.  It is not supported when sudo's
               SELinux RBAC support is in use due to a fundamental incompatibility.

               To enable intercept mode on a per-command basis, use the INTERCEPT tag as
               documented in the User Specification section above.  Here is that example again:

               chuck   research = INTERCEPT: ALL

               This allows user chuck to run any command on the machine “research” in intercept
               mode.  Any commands run via shell escapes will be validated and logged by sudo.
               If you are unsure whether or not your system is capable of supporting intercept,
               you can always just try it out and check whether or not external commands run via
               a shell are logged when intercept is enabled.

     log       There are two separate but related ways to log additional commands.  The first is
               to enable I/O logging using the log_output flag.  This will log the command's
               output but will not create an event log entry when the additional command is run.
               The second is to enable the log_subcmds flag in sudoers which will create an event
               log entry every time a new command is run.  If I/O logging is also enabled, the
               log entry will include a time offset into the I/O log to indicate when the command
               was run.  This offset can be passed to the sudoreplay(8) utility to replay the I/O
               log at the exact moment when the command was run.  The log_subcmds flag uses the
               same mechanism as intercept (see above) and has the same limitations.

     noexec    sudo's noexec functionality can be used to prevent a program run by sudo from
               executing any other programs.  On most systems, it uses the same mechanism as
               intercept (see above) and thus the same caveats apply.  The noexec functionality
               is capable of blocking execution of commands run via the execl(), execle(),
               execlp(), exect(), execv(), execve(), execveat(), execvP(), execvp(), execvpe(),
               fexecve(), popen(), posix_spawn(), posix_spawnp(), system(), and wordexp()
               functions.  On Linux, a seccomp() filter is used to implement noexec.  On Solaris
               10 and higher, noexec uses Solaris privileges instead of the LD_PRELOAD
               environment variable.

               To enable noexec for a command, use the NOEXEC tag as documented in the User
               Specification section above.  Here is that example again:

               aaron   shanty = NOEXEC: /usr/bin/more, /usr/bin/vi

               This allows user aaron to run /usr/bin/more and /usr/bin/vi with noexec enabled.
               This will prevent those two commands from executing other commands (such as a
               shell).  If you are unsure whether or not your system is capable of supporting
               noexec you can always just try it out and check whether shell escapes work when
               noexec is enabled.

     Note that restricting shell escapes is not a panacea.  Programs running as root are still
     capable of many potentially hazardous operations (such as changing or overwriting files)
     that could lead to unintended privilege escalation.  In the specific case of an editor, a
     safer approach is to give the user permission to run sudoedit (see below).

   Secure editing
     The sudoers plugin includes sudoedit support which allows users to securely edit files with
     the editor of their choice.  As sudoedit is a built-in command, it must be specified in the
     sudoers file without a leading path.  However, it may take command line arguments just as a
     normal command does.  Wildcards used in sudoedit command line arguments are expected to be
     path names, so a forward slash (‘/’) will not be matched by a wildcard.

     Unlike other sudo commands, the editor is run with the permissions of the invoking user and
     with the environment unmodified.  More information may be found in the description of the -e
     option in sudo(8).

     For example, to allow user operator to edit the “message of the day” file:

           operator        sudoedit /etc/motd

     The operator user then runs sudoedit as follows:

           $ sudoedit /etc/motd

     The editor will run as the operator user, not root, on a temporary copy of /etc/motd.  After
     the file has been edited, /etc/motd will be updated with the contents of the temporary copy.

     Users should never be granted sudoedit permission to edit a file that resides in a directory
     the user has write access to, either directly or via a wildcard.  If the user has write
     access to the directory it is possible to replace the legitimate file with a link to another
     file, allowing the editing of arbitrary files.  To prevent this, starting with version
     1.8.16, symbolic links will not be followed in writable directories and sudoedit will refuse
     to edit a file located in a writable directory unless the sudoedit_checkdir option has been
     disabled or the invoking user is root.  Additionally, in version 1.8.15 and higher, sudoedit
     will refuse to open a symbolic link unless either the sudoedit_follow option is enabled or
     the sudoedit command is prefixed with the FOLLOW tag in the sudoers file.

   Time stamp file checks
     sudoers will check the ownership of its time stamp directory (/run/sudo/ts by default) and
     ignore the directory's contents if it is not owned by root or if it is writable by a user
     other than root.  Older versions of sudo stored time stamp files in /tmp; this is no longer
     recommended as it may be possible for a user to create the time stamp themselves on systems
     that allow unprivileged users to change the ownership of files they create.

     While the time stamp directory should be cleared at reboot time, not all systems contain a
     /run or /var/run directory.  To avoid potential problems, sudoers will ignore time stamp
     files that date from before the machine booted on systems where the boot time is available.

     Some systems with graphical desktop environments allow unprivileged users to change the
     system clock.  Since sudoers relies on the system clock for time stamp validation, it may be
     possible on such systems for a user to run sudo for longer than timestamp_timeout by setting
     the clock back.  To combat this, sudoers uses a monotonic clock (which never moves
     backwards) for its time stamps if the system supports it.

     sudoers will not honor time stamps set far in the future.  Time stamps with a date greater
     than current_time + 2 * TIMEOUT will be ignored and sudoers will log and complain.

     If the timestamp_type option is set to “tty”, the time stamp record includes the device
     number of the terminal the user authenticated with.  This provides per-terminal granularity
     but time stamp records may still outlive the user's session.

     Unless the timestamp_type option is set to “global”, the time stamp record also includes the
     session ID of the process that last authenticated.  This prevents processes in different
     terminal sessions from using the same time stamp record.  On systems where a process's start
     time can be queried, the start time of the session leader is recorded in the time stamp
     record.  If no terminal is present or the timestamp_type option is set to “ppid”, the start
     time of the parent process is used instead.  In most cases this will prevent a time stamp
     record from being re-used without the user entering a password when logging out and back in
     again.

DEBUGGING

     Versions 1.8.4 and higher of the sudoers plugin support a flexible debugging framework that
     can help track down what the plugin is doing internally if there is a problem.  This can be
     configured in the sudo.conf(5) file.

     The sudoers plugin uses the same debug flag format as the sudo front-end:
     subsystem@priority.

     The priorities used by sudoers, in order of decreasing severity, are: crit, err, warn,
     notice, diag, info, trace, and debug.  Each priority, when specified, also includes all
     priorities higher than it.  For example, a priority of notice would include debug messages
     logged at notice and higher.

     The following subsystems are used by the sudoers plugin:

     alias     User_Alias, Runas_Alias, Host_Alias and Cmnd_Alias processing

     all       matches every subsystem

     audit     BSM and Linux audit code

     auth      user authentication

     defaults  sudoers file Defaults settings

     env       environment handling

     ldap      LDAP-based sudoers

     logging   logging support

     match     matching of users, groups, hosts, and netgroups in the sudoers file

     netif     network interface handling

     nss       network service switch handling in sudoers

     parser    sudoers file parsing

     perms     permission setting

     plugin    The equivalent of main for the plugin.

     pty       pseudo-terminal related code

     rbtree    redblack tree internals

     sssd      SSSD-based sudoers

     util      utility functions

     For example:

     Debug sudoers.so /var/log/sudoers_debug match@info,nss@info

     For more information, see the sudo.conf(5) manual.

SEE ALSO

     ssh(1), su(1), fnmatch(3), glob(3), mktemp(3), strftime(3), sudo.conf(5), sudo_plugin(5),
     sudoers.ldap(5), sudoers_timestamp(5), sudo(8), visudo(8)

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

     The sudoers file should always be edited by the visudo utility which locks the file and
     checks for syntax errors.  If sudoers contains syntax errors, sudo may refuse to run, which
     is a serious problem if sudo is your only method of obtaining superuser privileges.  Recent
     versions of sudoers will attempt to recover after a syntax error by ignoring the rest of the
     line after encountering an error.  Older versions of sudo will not run if sudoers contains a
     syntax error.

     When using netgroups of machines (as opposed to users), if you store fully qualified host
     name in the netgroup (as is usually the case), you either need to have the machine's host
     name be fully qualified as returned by the hostname command or use the fqdn option in
     sudoers.

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 “AS IS” and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited
     to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are
     disclaimed.  See the LICENSE file distributed with sudo or https://www.sudo.ws/license.html
     for complete details.