Re: apt-get, sudo and proxies

2006-04-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > There was a security hole found in sudo and the fix was to disallow most > environment variables: > http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946 > > - Ryan Fix it adding env_keep = var_name to your Defaults line in /etc/sudoers. Notice that var_name doesn't have a dollar si

Re: apt-get, sudo and proxies

2006-04-06 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:04PM +0200, Renato Serodio wrote: > Hello group, > > did something change in sudo policy? I usually do my updates behind a proxy > with the following commands: > > $export http_proxy=http://proxy.host:port > $sudo synaptic (or sudo dselect) > > It appears now that t

apt-get, sudo and proxies

2006-04-06 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello group,did something change in sudo policy? I usually do my updates behind a proxy with the following commands:$export http_proxy=http://proxy.host:port$sudo synaptic (or sudo dselect) It appears now that the variable isn't passed to the sudo command. So, if I define the variable for root, and