On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:04PM +0200, Renato Serodio wrote: > Hello group, > > did something change in sudo policy? I usually do my updates behind a proxy > with the following commands: > > $export http_proxy=http://proxy.host:port > $sudo synaptic (or sudo dselect) > > It appears now that the variable isn't passed to the sudo command. So, if I > define the variable for root, and call synaptic or dselect it goes, but > otherwise just complains it can't connect to the repository. > > Well, other programs, such as the CPAN shell through perl still works, so > I'll assume it's really something to do with sudo. > > Would anyone care to comment? There was a security hole found in sudo and the fix was to disallow most environment variables: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946 - Ryan
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