On 2006-11-12 at 04:34 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > why not modify sudo to not filter the EDITOR env var then there is no > more problem
Considering that this is the only situation where environment is dropped... yes this fixes sudo problem. The other possible solution is: #!/bin/bash export EDITOR="/usr/bin/editor" /usr/bin/fcrontab -e BUT. 1. upstream uses this in the code. Then to avoid mess and unify approach we should remove all such things from the code itself. In other cases this will stay as a bug in gentoo. 2. And I see possibility to write secure editor, which will write only in predefined locations. Use of such editor became possible only through clumsy wrapper scripts (like above) if we chose to force people never to use built in defaults. And in anyway we need solution to make things more predictable. Peter.
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