Hi. On Sun, 3 May 2015 13:04:50 +0530 Avinash Sonawane <root...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello! I am using Debian Jessie with Xfce. > > I am using proxy to access the Internet. Here's my /etc/environment > http://paste.debian.net/170960 > > Whenever I say `$ sudo apt-get update` it says > "Err http://security.debian.org jessie/updates Release.gpg > Could not resolve 'security.debian.org' > Err http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie Release.gpg > Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org' > ..." > > But whenever I say "# apt-get update" the proxy works and packages get > fetched properly. > > After searching on the web I came to know that `sudo` does not carry > the environment > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Environment_variables and > also found out that to make `sudo` acrry the environment one should > add ` > Defaults env_keep += "ftp_proxy http_proxy https_proxy no_proxy"` to > /etc/sudoers (the recommended way according to arch wiki). > > So I changed my /etc/sudoers. Here is it http://paste.debian.net/170961/ > > But still `$ sudo apt-get update` produces above error. And it's > really an inconvenience for me to become root user to do apt thing. > > So why `sudo` not respecting `/etc/sudoers` ? Am I missing something? There are at least three ways of doing the thing you need: 1) sudo -E apt-get update 2) Move 'Defaults env_keep…' to line 12 in /etc/sudoers (i.e. *before* "User privilege escalation section") 3) sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::Proxy=http://192.168.6.254:3128 update Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150503122035.224100d0ae4fecf47c051...@gmail.com
