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running_as_user() lets check_user() skip authentication when the command runs as the invoking user, including sudo -g group when the user is already in that group. Membership was checked with user_in_group(ctx->user.pw, ctx->runas.gr->gr_name), which compares the resolved group's name with the names of the user's groups, using strcasecmp() by default because case_insensitive_group is on (that option is documented for group names written in sudoers). A different group whose name merely matches one of the user's groups was therefore treated as one the user already has. With staff (gid 50, user is a member) and Staff (gid 5000, not a member), or a local admins (gid 1001) next to a directory admins (gid 5001), sudo -g Staff cmd or sudo -g '#5001' cmd runs with gid 5000 or 5001 (policy.c passes runas_gid= from gr_gid) without asking for a password, for any user whose rule allows the group, such as the usual (ALL:ALL).

Compare the runas group-ID with the user's primary gid and group-ID list instead, the same list user_in_group() already uses for #gid names. Running a command with one of your own groups still needs no password. I checked this by calling the real running_as_user() with the testsudoers passwd/group backend: for a user in staff and the first admins, Staff and the second admins returned true before the change and false after it, while staff, admins (1001) and the primary group stay true. make check results are unchanged from main.