On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 14:04:03 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >>> If you run sudo gem install foo, it will install to /root/.gem/ruby >> >> Are you sure? Won't it install to your normal user's home, but with root >> privileges? >> >> Paul > > I'm sure Depends on what "sudo" does. gem will do the wrong thing if sudo leaves HOME set to your user's home (either via env_keep or sudo -E).
