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Re: Bug#762839: bash without importing shell functions from the environment



Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> writes:

> No, I don't think that is the case. I believe sudo interprets those
> assignments itself (as also shown in man page), and the error I got
> clearly shows this to be the case.

> brian@aquitard:~$ sudo echo='() { /bin/echo bar; id; }'  ./test.sh
> sudo: sorry, you are not allowed to set the following environment
> variables: echo

Ah!  You're right.  I totally missed that capability of sudo.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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