Sudo already parses /etc/environment when used with the -i option. If
our goal is to have it always parse /etc/environment, how about simply
doing the following?
Index: sudo-1.8.3p1/plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c
===================================================================
--- sudo-1.8.3p1.orig/plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c 2011-10-25 10:08:12.000000000
-0400
+++ sudo-1.8.3p1/plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c 2012-05-15 20:40:38.997780972
-0400
@@ -581,12 +581,12 @@
NewArgv[0] = NewArgv[1];
NewArgv[1] = "--login";
}
+ }
#if defined(__linux__) || defined(_AIX)
/* Insert system-wide environment variables. */
read_env_file(_PATH_ENVIRONMENT, TRUE);
#endif
- }
/* Insert system-wide environment variables. */
if (def_env_file)
I still need to think about the security ramifications in doing so though.
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sudo, pkexec don't apply global environment settings from
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