*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1556302 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556302
I marked this as a dup of bug 1556302, as there seems to be more recent
movement in that bug, and both bugs want the same thing - to revert the
Ubuntu-only patch 'keep_home_by_default.patch'.
** This bug ha
@seth-arnold
Sorry for the very~ late reply, my aplogies.
> If HOME is removed, then e.g. vim, bash, etc., will use /root/.vimrc,
> /root/.bashrc,
> etc rather than the user's ~/.vimrc, ~/.bashrc, etc.
You shouldn't expect finding your config files when using other user's
account(including roo
If HOME is removed, then e.g. vim, bash, etc., will use /root/.vimrc,
/root/.bashrc, etc rather than the user's ~/.vimrc, ~/.bashrc, etc.
While it's a bad idea to run X clients via sudo, they too would likely
look in the wrong locations for configuration files, and there's a
chance that X11 clients
Is this the keep_home_by_default first submission?
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vorlon/ubuntu/natty/sudo/keep_home_by_default/files
The file env.c has the table initial_keepenv_table that lists HOME and
it is used in init_envtables . What could break from correcting this?
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Title:
sudo shouldn't preserve caller's HOME environment variable by default
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** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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Title:
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** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Also affects: hundredpapercuts
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: sudo (Ubunt
** Tags added: wily xenial
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sudo shouldn't preserve caller's HOME environment variable by default
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** Description changed:
Currently Ubuntu hard-coded sudo to preserve HOME environment variable
to point to sudo caller's home directory by default(refer bug #760140)
however this is dangerous and error-prone because the program run by
root may write files (e.g. $HOME/.Xauthority , program
** Description changed:
Currently Ubuntu hard-coded sudo to preserve HOME environment variable
to point to sudo caller's home directory by default(refer bug #760140)
however this is dangerous and error-prone because the program run by
root may write files (e.g. $HOME/.Xauthority , program
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
sudo
** Description changed:
Currently Ubuntu hard-coded sudo to preserve HOME environment variable
to point to sudo caller's home directory by default(refer bug #760140)
however this is dangerous and error-prone because the program run by
root may write files (e.g. $HOME/.Xauthority , program
** Description changed:
Currently Ubuntu hard-coded sudo to preserve HOME environment variable
to point to sudo caller's home directory by default(refer bug #760140)
however this is dangerous and error-prone because the program run by
root may write files (e.g. $HOME/.Xauthority , program
** Summary changed:
- sudo shouldn't preserve HOME environment variable by default
+ sudo shouldn't preserve caller's HOME environment variable by default
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