On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > I don't know what the reasoning behind not setting > $HOME in sudo is and if it serves any higher purpose, but there are > various reasons for relying on $HOME to determine the location of ~ > instead of using info from /etc/passwd having to do with wanting to > install software as another user and such. It should be noted that su > does change $HOME.
> I don't know how to best resolve this. Perhaps it is a sudo bug? > Suggestions are welcome. see the section on -H in the sudo manpage. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer working in new zealand open-steam.org|webhaven.co.nz unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
