From: David Goldsmith dgoldsmith@sans.org
On the first server (CentOS 5.4 i386) running sudo 1.6.9pl7-5 (from base), here are the results of touching a file as a user, as root and as a user sudoing to root: On the second server (CentOS x86-64) running sudo 1.7.2p1-7 (from updates), here are the results of the same actions:
Maybe check the release notes... http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html A quick look got: "A new Defaults option "umask_override" will cause sudo to set the umask specified in sudoers even if it is more permissive than the invoking user's umask. "
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