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mention that logfile is not supported
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Expand Up @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ To avoid that and/or to get the latest version, you can use our prepackaged bina

### Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka)

sudo-rs is installed and enabled by default; you can control which sudo version is being used by running
sudo-rs is installed and enabled by default; you can control which sudo version is being used by running
```sh
update-alternatives --config sudo
```
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pkg install sudo-rs
```
To get sudo-rs using the commands `sudo`, `visudo` and `sudoedit`. This conflicts with the `security/sudo` package and so you cannot have both
installed at the same time.
installed at the same time.

Alternatively,
```
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compatibility reasons.
* `timestamp_type` is always set at `tty`.
* `sudoedit_checkdir` is always `on`, and `sudoedit_follow` is always `off`.
* `logfile` is not supported --- logging is always done via syslog.

Some other notable restrictions to be aware of:

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Expand Up @@ -290,8 +290,6 @@ would allow the user queen to run /bin/kill, /bin/ls, and /usr/bin/lprm as root

queen rushmore = NOPASSWD: /bin/kill, PASSWD: /bin/ls, /usr/bin/lprm

Note, however, that the PASSWD tag has no effect on users who are in the group specified by the exempt_group setting.

By default, if the NOPASSWD tag is applied to any of a user's entries for the current host, the user will be able to run “sudo -l” without a password. Additionally, a user may only run “sudo -v” without a password if all of the user's entries for the current host have the NOPASSWD tag.

### SETENV and NOSETENV
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