* Marc Haber: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:25:44AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >> With the default sudo configuration, if you're in group sudo, you can >> already "sudo -E" to preserve the environment; you can also run "sudo >> env ..." or just "sudo VAR=value ..." to set arbitrary environment >> variables. sudo allows users permitted to run "ALL" to do things like >> that, and by default group sudo can run ALL. > > This is at least neat enough to have it as a suggestion in Debian's > default configuration. I have written this (commented out) in > /etc/sudoers for the time being.
I have trouble imagining a scenario in which one wouldn't just tell the user to configure the proxy specifically for APT (i.e. Acquire::http::Proxy) instead. Let's just mark this "wontfix". Cheers, -Hilko
