Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:56:08 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: did sudo change the default sense of env_reset option? Message-ID: <30450135@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20100522095237.GA62670@duncan.reilly.home> (Andrew Reilly's message of "Sat, 22 May 2010 19:52:37 %2B1000") References: <20100522095237.GA62670@duncan.reilly.home>
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Hi Andrew and All, On Sat, 22 May 2010 19:52:37 +1000 Andrew Reilly wrote: > I haven't changed my configuration recently, but I've noticed > that sudo processes have stopped inheriting my environment > variables like MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX and PORTSDIR. I read the man > page, and tried sudo -E, and that brings back the "old" > behaviour, but that implies (according to the man page) that my > sudoers file has env_reset enabled, and it just doesn't. > Hmm. Closer reading of man 5 sudoers says that env_reset is > *on* by default. This is new to me. > Hmm. More digging in man pages: I need to add > Defaults !env_reset > under the #Defaults specification line. > Any thoughts or suggestions? Seems that at least an entry at UPDATING will be good to have. > OK, so I've figured out the answer to my problem now, but since > I have seen one other post about the sudden disappearance of > MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX, and no obvious conversation about changes to > sudo, I'll post this anyway. Hope it helps someone. I was the person of that post. Sure the new sudo behaviour has not been expected. Now all is clear [to me]. Thanks a lot! -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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