Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:52:37 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: did sudo change the default sense of env_reset option? Message-ID: <20100522095237.GA62670@duncan.reilly.home>
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Hi there, 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? 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. Cheers, -- Andrew
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