]] Simon McVittie > On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 at 21:43:20 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > However, if you just do the IMO more common sudo $command, you get a lot > > more: > > > > $ sudo env | wc -l > > 87 > > Is that under default configuration? My /etc/sudoers{,.d/*} don't mention > env_reset, and "sudo env" clears most of the environment (including LESS, > but notably not PATH).
Hmm, no, it seems like my standard setup has snuck in a !env_reset in there somewhere. With that removed, the environment is indeed a lot cleaner (~similar to what I got with sudo -i). It still leaks XAUTHORITY, HOSTNAME, DISPLAY, TZ, LANG, which is annoying, but it's less of a problem than what I claimed. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are