On Wed, 2023-03-22 at 07:47 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:33 AM Eyal Lebedinsky > <fed...@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote: > > [...] > > Doing this works: > > $ su > > # su eyal -c "ogg123 ... > > but doing this does not: > > $ sudo -i > > # su eyal -c "ogg123 ... > > nor does this: > > $ sudo -i > > # sudo -u eyal "ogg123 ... > > > > So 'su' and 'sudo' set up a different context. > > The '-i' option to sudo replaces the environment of the subprocess > with a new environment; or in other words you are throwing away all > the environment variables and creating a new set.
In fact 'sudo -i' runs the target user's login scripts (.login, .profile etc.). The environment can be configured by the user's entry in /etc/sudoers. See sudoers(5). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
