Re: Recently sound does not play as root

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On Wed, 2023-03-22 at 07:47 -0400, Go Canes wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:33 AM Eyal Lebedinsky
> <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Doing this works:
> >         $ su
> >         # su eyal -c "ogg123 ...
> > but doing this does not:
> >         $ sudo -i
> >         # su eyal -c "ogg123 ...
> > nor does this:
> >         $ sudo -i
> >         # sudo -u eyal "ogg123 ...
> > 
> > So 'su' and 'sudo' set up a different context.
> 
> The '-i' option to sudo replaces the environment of the subprocess
> with a new environment; or in other words you are throwing away all
> the environment variables and creating a new set.

In fact 'sudo -i' runs the target user's login scripts (.login,
.profile etc.). The environment can be configured by the user's entry
in /etc/sudoers. See sudoers(5).

poc
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