Also, I would like to add that there is a serious (imho) regression in -2 which should probably be considered release-critical: the bug is #596493: "keep HOME by default even when env_reset is true"
The default /etc/sudoers has Defaults env_reset which means that the bug is triggered with the default conf. Currently, assuming that host2 is running squeeze with the default /etc/sudoers, the execution of... user1@host1$ ssh -X user2@host2 user2@host2$ sudo xterm ...fails because HOME is being set to /root by sudo, so xauth finds the wrong cookie in $HOME/.Xauthority . This breaks an expected (and widely relied upon) behavior in a non-obvious way, which took me a little to figure out. Also, a lot of other programs use HOME and users expect sudo not to screw things up. Bug #596493 is fixed in -4, so I support this request to unfreeze sudo. Regards, Andrea Azzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
