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Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:55:09 +0100
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Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> There's an environment variable "SUDO_USER" which still contains the name
> of the original user.
>
> We could check SUDO_USER instead of USER if USER=root, otherwise check USER.

Or perhaps we could ignore HOME when SUDO_USER is set, and instead honor
/etc/passwd only?

Ludo’.



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