[sudo-users] Using an environment variable in sudoers?

[leam hall]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Shawn McMahon <syberghost at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:48 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Working through the things I've been asked to do. Most of them seem okay
> so
> > far, but still stuck on using an environment variable in a sudoers file.
> >
> > What I'm looking for is to be able to put "$LEAM_PATH/my_command.sh" in
> > suders. I've tried to add the following to /etc/sudoers.d/my_commands but
> > get a syntax error.
> >
> >  Defaults env_keep += "LEAM_PATH"
> >  leam                       ALL = $LEAM_PATH/my_command.sh
> >
>
> A completely equivalent rule would be:
>
> leam       ALL = ALL
>
>
Hey Shawn,

Are you saying that because of the ability to reset the environment
variable? I don't disagree, but wasn't sure if there's another option.

Thanks!

Leam



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