On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:55:29AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: ... > # sudo -H -u vscan sa-learn --dump ... > But when I do > # su -l vscan ... > # sudo -H -u vscan sa-learn --dump ... > Now why is there a diff between sudo as a user or directly logging in as
One of the differences will be all the commands in the User's shell-startup-Files! Those are ignored, if you run the command directly by sudo. It also depends on the version of 'sudo', because one of the latest changes *dropped* the HOME-Variable from the environment (at least if you run the command directly from sudo!). Lots of our automated cron-scripts suddenly failed by this 'security fix' and we had to replace OLD: sudo command NEW: sudo env HOME=$HOME command to 'bridge the gap' and re-use the *current* HOME 'inside of sudo'. May be the 'sudo -l vscan' also sets the missing HOME! Yours Stucki (postmaster hit by the same? :-)
