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"Why would comments appear in the middle of the if command?" -- Because the line with umask can be commented out. And anyway, who knows where someone might add comments.

ilkkachu
– ilkkachu

2022-01-28 07:46:54 +00:00
Commented Jan 28, 2022 at 7:46
@ilkkachu Sure, anything can be commented out. I still don't know what would be the source of those comments becoming inserted into the command after the file was saved. The system sure wouldn't do it and I assume OP doesn't enter fugue states, which means there must be other sudoers potentially doing goofy things.

fuzzydrawrings
– fuzzydrawrings

2022-01-28 17:08:19 +00:00
Commented Jan 28, 2022 at 17:08

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