[sudo-users] sudo crontab

[Galen Johnson]

You find some other solaris oddities with sudo 1.6.9+ (haven't tried the 1.7 beta branch)...we've seen it strip out LD* variables when you have them in a script...particularly with su:

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH):/some/new/path
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

su someuser -c "env"

This has consistently failed for us (we have a postgres script that barfs every time unless we add the LD* in front of the actual command...su someuser -c "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH):/some/new/path env").  This worked fine with 1.6.8 but 1.6.9 seems to have something that causes this.  I just happened to have an environment that had both and the same script was run in both.

This be something unique to our environments (which make heavy use of zones) but it is consistent throughout.

=G=

-----Original Message-----
From: sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com [mailto:sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com] On Behalf Of Jeanne Ilchuk
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:53 PM
To: Todd C. Miller
Cc: sudo-users at courtesan.com
Subject: Re: [sudo-users] sudo crontab

How'd you know I was on Solaris :-)

Thanks, that is working perfectly.  My fingers were wearing out logging
in and out of all app users (such as SFX instances, we have 9).  Thanks
again.

Jeanne

Todd C. Miller wrote:
> Try adding the following line to the top of you sudoers file:
>
> Defaults      env_keep+=EDITOR
>
> It looks like Solaris defaults to ed, not vi if EDITOR is not set.
>
>  - todd

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