Same situation on RHEL5 with sudo-1.7.2p1-21.el5 +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #856901 +++ Description of problem: !<user> shout match to all users different from <user> but it doesn't seem to work and this patters seem to be ignored Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sudo-1.7.4p5-13.el6_3.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add test user 2. update sudoers with: user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Defaults !requiretty # actually not necessary, this is the default Defaults:!root requiretty # require tty for all non-root users 3. login as test user and add this into user's crontab (crontab -e) * * * * * /usr/bin/sudo id &> /tmp/id Actual results: every minute /tmp/id is updated with the output od the "id" command. This is not correct because cron jobs don't have tty and therefore we should see just the message similar to "sorry, you need tty"
Per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856901#c2 this bug is now regarding man page update that explains the behavior.
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Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1353.html