Re: Environment Variables for sudo
Timothy Cowlishaw wrote:
Hi All,
am having a bit of a problem with setting environment variables on my
web server. I need to set the following, for all users, including root.
<snip>
this works fine for normal users (and for root when using su, which i
had disabled), but apparently not for root (via sudo).
the output from a 'sudo env' is this:
TERM=vt100
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/
usr/X11R6/bin
LOGNAME=root
USER=root
SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/bin/env
SUDO_USER=tim
SUDO_UID=1000
SUDO_GID=1000
could anyone enlighten me on where sudo gets its environment
variables from, as it apparently is not in /root, as i expected! any
ideas what i might be doing wrong / overlooking?
(First, is that as typo? (spurious space in PATH))
I would assume that sudo merely executes the program, and does not start
a new shell (unless you ask it to), thus my assumption is that it's your
env, merely executed with root's privilages.
As for su, from the man page:
OPTIONS
- make this a login shell
So, if you want to be root, AND have settings associated with root's
login, use:
su -
As opposed to just:
su
Hope that helps.
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