On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 12:27:12PM +0300, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote:
> work[3,4] (yes... if EDITOR is not set). But EDITOR *is not* set when
> program is started from sudo because sudo for security reasons drops
> environment (are there any other cases when environment is dropped?).

You can set `Defaults env_keep=EDITOR` in your sudoers file if you want,
or what I do is `Defaults:%wheel !env_reset`, to allow users in group
wheel to use sudo without the environment being scrubbed.

Thanks, Tavis.

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