Le Ven 27 Janvier 2006 11:38, Joost Cassee a écrit :
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:00:52PM +1000, David Young wrote:
Since the recent patch of sudo (DSA-946-1) started filtering the
HOME environment variable (leaving it unset), Vim:
Could you please provide more info on this?
On a sid box I already have the version of sudo including the fix
(1.6.8p12-1), but I'm unable to reproduce the behaviour you are
reporting, thus I'm tagging the bug as unreproducible. Details
of my tests follow.
I tried both running sudo -s (as root) and sudo vim (as a user
who has the permission to run /usr/bin/vim via sudo). In the
former case $HOME is set correctly to /root, in the latter case
vim starts properly without exhibiting any of the problems you
reported.
I can confirm this behaviour. Indeed, the variable HOME is unset.
This can be fixed in /etc/sudoers by setting the 'always_set_home'
flag or by running sudo with the -H option.
sudo bug #203874 requests this option in the default sudoers file,
but there was no answer from the sudo maintainer.
I doubt think this bug can/should be fixed in the vim package.
I agree with that, having $HOME unset is a big problem for too many
packages, and we discussed with Bram (vim's author), and we agreed that
autodetecting user's home using Unix calls is not a good idea, because
unsetting HOME is a common method to make program not source their
DOTFILES e.g. (or not search for them when you have a NFS problem).
So I'd say this bug has to be reassigned to sudo.
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