Re: sudo not respecting /etc/sudoers
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 05:09:20PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> may be it's file permissions. For me
> $ ls -la /etc/environment /etc/sudoers
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 May 2 17:41 /etc/environment
> -r--r----- 1 root root 778 May 3 16:13 /etc/sudoers
There's nothing wrong with the file permissions. By default, root's
shell reads /etc/environment, but users do not. To be honest I'm not
sure why that is the case. You can configure your user(s) to source
/etc/environment by adding '. /etc/environment' to their ~/.bashrc
files (assuming they still use bash). To solve your specific apt-related
problem, you can also add 'Defaults env_file += /etc/environment' to
sudoers and it will be sourced by sudo when you use it to invoke another
command. (IMHO that's preferable to whitelisting the http_proxy env
variable). However it wouldn't be in your user's environment and you might
want it for wget, curl, etc. as a non-root user, too.
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