Re: sudo dumping core on recent current

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

I forgot to mention that I'm building without PAM support. (sudo doesn't 
work with our pam_krb5 and once I've got a working system I would kind 
of like to follow that up.)

On 15/12/2025 11:53, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
> Kia ora,
> I'm running 11.99.4 on a couple of amd64 systems and after I upgraded 
> pkgsrc on them I noticed that sudo now dumps core whenever I run it as 
> an unprivileged user.
>
> I have tried sudo-1.9.17p1 from pkgsrc built and run on a very recent 
> copy of -current and it always dumps core when I run "sudo ls". I have 
> tried building it with the system GCC 14 and the pkgsrc GCC 13 with no 
> change in behaviour.
>
> I have tried sudo-1.9.17p1 from pkgsrc built on a slightly older 
> version of 11.99.4 and that seems to work on older and newer 11.99.4 
> systems.
>
> I have no idea how to debug this because sudo won't dump an actual 
> core file if it's setuid root and won't run if it isn't.
>
> I also don't have the wherewithall needed to cope with CVS' inability 
> to tell me exactly which version of the source tree I have in any 
> given checkout. I don't normally do an "update" build, so I don't 
> think I'm not hitting the recent pthread change.
>
> If anyone can give me some advice on how to move forwards, I would be 
> grateful.
>
> Ngā mihi,
> Lloyd