Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-08 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1141855431, Chris Bannister wrote: > apt-cache policy sudo That's a useful trick, I didn't know about that, thanks :) Now, for the benefit of the OP, interpreting the output: $ apt-cache policy sudo sudo: Installed: 1.6.8p7-1.3 Candidate: 1.6.8p7-1.3 Version Table: 1.6.8p12-1 0

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:30:12AM -0800, Willie Wonka wrote: > hi; > having a Debian 3.1r1 installed and doing; > > $ sudo -V > Sudo version 1.6.8p7 > > I see I have 1.6.8p7 .. but am I to presume that no -1.3 (or any minor > version or revision?) is not displayed because it's non-existant on my

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-07 Thread Scott
Jon Dowland spake thusly on 03/06/2006 06:38 AM: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle with su

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-06 Thread Willie Wonka
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > wrote: > > 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was > > deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions > > differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle > > with sudoers to get

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was > deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions > differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle > with sudoers to get it to behave as it did before.

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tadeusz Bak wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On Sarge since sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 it is. Hugo, I am sorry, but I am not sure what do you mean. Does sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 set the HOME variable on your system, or it doesn't and this is intentional? If the later is the case what is the

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-05 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > On Sarge since sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 it is. Hugo, I am sorry, but I am not sure what do you mean. Does sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 set the HOME variable on your system, or it doesn't and this is intentional? If the later is the case what is the reason for this? Did

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tadeusz Bak wrote: Hi, I was just trying to use pbuilder on a sarge system and during creation of the baze.tgz (sudo pbuilder create) it complained about missing .pbuilderrc file, despite the fact that I have one in my home directory. After some investigation I found that sudo doesn't set the HO