[Touch-packages] [Bug 1741398] Re: Commented line in sudoers file breaks sudo

Wow, OK apologies for wasting everyone's time in that case but I have to say that its pretty confusing. Even within the sudoers file there are comments prefixed by a hash. But if your comment happens to start with #include it magically becomes active. I now understand this is the intended behaviou

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1741398] Re: Commented line in sudoers file breaks sudo

cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS" Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/501204 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packa

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1741398] [NEW] Commented line in sudoers file breaks sudo

Public bug reported: Ubuntu 16.04 Amazon AWS image. sudo: Installed: 1.8.16-0ubuntu1.5 Used sudo visudo to edit /etc/sudoers file from the ubutntu admin user At the bottom of the file is a line #includedir /etc/sudoers.d I added a couple of lines at the end of the file to give permissions t