> > > 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. > > 503 > sudo python > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Mar 7 2008, 04:10:12) > [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import os > >>> os.system('bash') > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sorr# echo $HOME > > We starting "losing" some environment variables when we upgraded Macs from OS X 10.4 to 10.5. 10.5 includes a new sudo that wipes the environment other than specific variables it says to keep. We needed to add lines to sudoers to keep our proxy server environment variables. Maybe adding something like this would fix HOME?
Defaults env_keep += "HOME" -Shawn
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