On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have a bunch of old debian sarge distros running and we're slowly > upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. > > For reasons that are not important here, we need to run our python app as > root. So we added > > ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/python > > to the sudoers file. (Yeah yeah don't start.) > > The problem is that under the FF release, sudo is acting broken, i.e., not > like the man page sez it's supposed to. Under FF, I lose my HOME envvar. > I'm not supposed to lose it. > When you log in as root normally, from where is $HOME getting set? From .bash_profile or .bash_login or .profile or from /etc/profile, or from somewhere else? mark
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