Target users environment

[Becker, Brian]

How does this solve Robert's original problem?  He's trying to avoid logging
these script-based su's in the first place.  All sudo has added is an extra
layer of complexity.

Is there a reason why a '-' option couldn't or shouldn't be added to sudo?

Brian R. Becker
Unix System Administrator
McKesson Corporation
(916) 636-8785


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Hannigan [mailto:mlh at zip.com.au] 
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:00 AM
To: Robert Cross
Cc: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Subject: Re: Target users environment


Robert Cross wrote:
> Sorry if this is a RTFM question.
> 
> We've got a lot of scripts that run as root that do
>  su - someuser "-c cd somedir; ${somesymbol}/someprogram"
> 
> now these rely on the 'su -' part, i.e. inheriting the default enviroment
> of 'someuser'. Is there
> anyway to use sudo to do this?

Bit of FAQ this one.  The way to do the "su - .." thing is to ...
... do the "su - .." thing!!

e.g.

     sudo "su - someuser '-c cd somedir; ${somesymbol}/someprogram'"

though it gets a bit hard to expand the ${somesymbol} AND match
that against a valid sudoers config line.

Regards,
Matt
PS. Why do you have the -c in there?

PPS. That's one hell of a disclaimer that Scottish Courage tack
       onto your email.

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