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Description of problem:
When you use sudo -i and you pass in a command w/arguments that include spaces the wrong arguments are passed to the command b/c the spaces are not escaped.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sudo-1.7.4p5-13.el6_3.x86_64


How reproducible:
to test try this:
sudo -i -- python -c 'import sys; print sys.argv'

on a rhel6 system it will output:


 File "<string>", line 1
    import
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax



On fedora 16, 17, or 18 you can do the same command
and get back:

sudo -i -- python -c 'import sys; print sys.argv'
['-c']


I've narrowed it down to being related to this patch:
http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/4c88da5fc510
However I patched and rebuilt the sudo srpm from rhel6 with this patch and it just ended up segfaulting :( So I clearly missed something else important in the change set between 1.7.4 and 1.7.7.

However, I rebuild 1.8.6p3 from fedora18 in mock for rhel6 and the resulting pkg (which built perfectly) works as expected.

We are rebasing to 1.8.6p3 in rhel-6.4 so this is going to be fixed.

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/RHBA-2013-0363.html