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Global environment variables are not global in sudo shell

Bug #162837 reported by Olivier Blanc
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Bug Description

Since the upgrade to "sudo 1.6.9p6-1ubuntu1 ", the global environment variables are not passed as global variables to sudo shell

For exemple,
export http_proxy=http://foo.bar:8080/ && sudo echo $http_proxy && sudo printenv
returns

http://foo.bar:8080 => for echo

and returns for printenv

TERM=xterm
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
DISPLAY=:0.0
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
XAUTHORITY=/home/olivier/.Xauthority
HOME=/home/olivier
SHELL=/bin/bash
LOGNAME=root
USER=root
USERNAME=root
SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/bin/printenv
SUDO_USER=olivier
SUDO_UID=507
SUDO_GID=501

No reference to http_proxy variable.

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Gianfranco Liporace (dr.kabuto) wrote :

Hi,
I can confirm this behaviour with Hardy Alpha 4.
I've an application that uses java and test for a variable named "JAVA_HOME". Setting it in /etc/profile or manually using a export statement, the variable is not preserved using sudo. With Gutsy all is fine.

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Gianfranco Liporace (dr.kabuto) wrote :

This bug seems a duplicate of #181999

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kongyuzhong (kongyuzhong) wrote :

I think the default of env_reset be enable.
maybe need to disable "env_reset" or set "env_keep=" by modified the "/etc/sudoers"

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This is fixed in current hardy's sudo version. http_proxy is passed on every time, and other variables can be kept with "sudo -E".

Changed in sudo:
status: New → Fix Released
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