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sudo -E not passing all variables
Reading the man pages I expected sudo -E to pass all environment variables to the subshell, but I am not getting the expected results.
As expected, awesome:
$ export ...
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2answers
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sudo, runuser, su don't work as I expect when run as root with command as “echo $HOME”
When I run these commands it outputs as shown. /root
sudo -u someuser -i "echo $HOME"
/root
runuser -l someuser -c "echo $HOME"
/root
su - someuser -c "echo $HOME"
/root
What i expected was
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How do I make sudo preserve my environment variables?
Using sudo 1.7.4p4 on Solaris 5.10 and sudo 1.6.7p5 on RHEL4 u6 I can't see how to preserve my environment variables, for instance $PYTHONPATH. I've added this line to sudoers, but it doesn't make any ...
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vote
1answer
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Set environment variable for another user (Standalone Trac problem)
I'd like to run tracd (Trac in standalone mode) with custom template for multiple repository list:
$ tracd -p 8080 -e /my/projects/path
For custom template, I need an environment variable (as said ...
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2answers
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Make environment variables available when running command as sudo
I am using Curl, and am having a problem trying to get it to recognize the $http_proxy environment variable when using sudo curl. I tried putting export http_proxy=.... in my /etc/profile and ...
