Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.8p12-4
Tags: patch
It is nice that the new, tighter sudo now keeps the XAUTHORITY variable,
but there are still X variables that sudo is not respecting, and this
makes it hard for me to run some X11 applications. sudo should keep the
Xt toolkit variables XAPPLRESDIR, XFILESEARCHPATH, and XUSERFILESEARCHPATH.
The small patch appended restores the environment variables used by Xt.
It is against 1.6.8p12-4, but a similar patch would benefit 1.6.8p7-1.4
in Sarge.
< Stephen
--- sudo-1.6.8p12/env.c 2006-06-17 17:49:06
+++ env.c 2006-06-17 17:56:18
@@ -372,6 +372,9 @@ rebuild_env(envp, sudo_mode, noexec)
if (!strncmp (*ep, "DISPLAY=",8)
|| !strncmp (*ep, "XAUTHORITY=", 11)
|| !strncmp (*ep, "XAUTHORIZATION=", 15)
+ || !strncmp (*ep, "XAPPLRESDIR=", 12)
+ || !strncmp (*ep, "XFILESEARCHPATH=", 16)
+ || !strncmp (*ep, "XUSERFILESEARCHPATH=", 20)
|| !strncmp (*ep, "LANG=", 5)
|| !strncmp (*ep, "LANGUAGE=", 9)
|| !strncmp (*ep, "LC_", 3))
--- sudo-1.6.8p12/sudoers.pod 2006-06-17 17:49:06 -0400
+++ sudoers.pod 2006-06-18 19:04:14 -0400
@@ -441,10 +441,12 @@
If set, B<sudo> will reset the environment to only contain the
following variables: C<HOME>, C<LOGNAME>, C<PATH>, C<SHELL>, C<TERM>,
C<DISPLAY>, C<XAUTHORITY>, C<XAUTHORIZATION>,
+C<XAPPLRESDIR>, C<XFILESEARCHPATH>, C<XUSERFILESEARCHPATH>,
C<LANG>, C<LANGUAGE>, C<LC_*>,
and C<USER> (in addition to the C<SUDO_*> variables).
Of these, only C<TERM>, C<DISPLAY>, C<XAUTHORITY>, C<XAUTHORIZATION>,
+C<XAPPLRESDIR>, C<XFILESEARCHPATH>, C<XUSERFILESEARCHPATH>,
C<LANG>, C<LANGUAGE>, and C<LC_*> are copied unaltered from the old
environment.
The other variables are set to default values (possibly modified
by the value of the I<set_logname> option). If B<sudo> was compiled
--- sudo-1.6.8p12/debian/README.Debian 2006-06-17 17:49:06.000000000 -0400
+++ debian/README.Debian 2006-06-18 19:05:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
This implies that all environment variables are removed, except for
HOME, LOGNAME, PATH, SHELL, TERM, DISPLAY, XAUTHORITY, XAUTHORIZATION,
+XAPPLRESDIR, XFILESEARCHPATH, XUSERFILESEARCHPATH,
LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_*, and USER.
In case you want sudo to preserve more environment variables, you must
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