Question: Why doesn't -H work?

Alan Sparks asparks at quris.com
Wed Oct 15 21:52:36 EDT 2003


Malton, Craig said:
> sudo -H -u db2as echo $HOME
> I'm running this as user cmalton and $HOME keeps returning as
> /home/cmalton not /export/home/db2as.  Does anyone know why -H isn't
> working for me?

Because $HOME is expanded by your shell /before/ the command is run,
not /when/ sudo is run.
-Alan

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