RE: Environment and Sudo

[David Baron]

>Commands invoked using sudo do not receive/honor environment items or 
>aliases. 
>Example would be the alias vi="vim". Invoking normally will run vim, invoking 
>using sudo vi will get the "other" vi.

>Is there something else I need in /etc/profile or some .bashrc?

So for security reasons, the env is being cleansed. Posted was a
Defaults  !env_reset
line at head of the sudoers file.

Maybe this does indeed keep env entries. What does one do about aliases, such 
as
rm="rm -i"
vi="vim"

and such?


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Re: Environment and Sudo

[viraj]

On 5/25/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Commands invoked using sudo do not receive/honor environment items or aliases.Example would be the alias vi="vim". Invoking normally will run vim, invokingusing sudo vi will get the "other" vi.
Is there something else I need in /etc/profile or some .bashrc?
yes, you have to put correct entries in /etc/sudoers 

for more information on setting up sudoers, do google for 'howto sudo', there are hundreds of pointers!


~viraj
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