Using sudo with Ingres

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Thu Aug 10 13:21:15 EDT 2000


Sudo clears the LD_* environment variables (and their equivalents
on various operating systems) since they represent a security
problem.  What you could do is give people sudo for a shell script
that explicitly sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or SHLIB_PATH if you are suing
HP-UX) to include the directory that holds the shared libs and then
runs the real executable.  Alternately, if you are using an OS that
supports ldconfig or something like ld.so.conf you should be able
to just add the path that way.

 - todd



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