Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:00:52PM +1000, David Young wrote: >> Since the recent patch of sudo (DSA-946-1) started filtering the HOME >> environment variable (leaving it unset), Vim: > > Could you please provide more info on this? > > On a sid box I already have the version of sudo including the fix > (1.6.8p12-1), but I'm unable to reproduce the behaviour you are > reporting, thus I'm tagging the bug as "unreproducible". Details of my > tests follow. > > I tried both running "sudo -s" (as root) and "sudo vim" (as a user who > has the permission to run "/usr/bin/vim" via sudo). In the former case > "$HOME" is set correctly to "/root", in the latter case vim starts > properly without exhibiting any of the problems you reported.
I can confirm this behaviour. Indeed, the variable HOME is unset. This can be fixed in /etc/sudoers by setting the 'always_set_home' flag or by running sudo with the -H option. sudo bug #203874 requests this option in the default sudoers file, but there was no answer from the sudo maintainer. I doubt think this bug can/should be fixed in the vim package. Regards, Joost
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