On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 10:57:01PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 08/10/2018 11:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > I think it is unnecessary. su itself does not need the environment
> > variable. If a user needs a specific setting, then set it in a script:
> >
> > su --command myscript
The important is to say that reset environment is good, expected and
wanted thing. You want to have full control on environment in many
cases.
> I'm 50:50. The point was to pass in variables values per environment
> to a process inside 'su' (or 'sudo'), and one can achieve that with e.g.
BTW, sudo has env_check, env_delete, or env_keep to control environment
in the sudoers.
> $ su -c 'env VAR="val" myscript' user
>
> Well, this might become slightly trickier with real shell or environment
> variables wrt/ correct shell quoting:
>
> $ VAR='some value'
> $ su -c 'env VAR="'"$VAR"'" myscript' user
Well, probably usable way for scripts, but ugly for users on command line.
All the idea behind the patch is make things more user-friendly
su -w GREP_COLOR,COLORFGBG - kzak
seems better than assume -c 'env VAR ..."
Karel
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