sudoers files and apt-get upgrade

[Vince Hillier]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:39:03PM -0800, James. Q Li wrote:
> hi, 
> 
> (using debian sarge stable)
> 
> I can't find a good config for sudoer file to deal with the environment setup problem in recent
> sudo upgrade. in short, i had the following lines in my /etc/sudoers file
>   Defaults     !set_logname,env_reset,env_keep=*
> then my $HOME is still my user home under sudo and i am happy.
> 
> however, I started to having problem about it while doing apt-get upgrade. the problem is that
> when doing apt-get upgrade unsing my sudo account, all of the postinst script failed because it
> couldn't find the path to some of the commands it invokes. 
> for example i was trying to upgrade 'tar' today and it complains that
> "/var/lib/dpkg/info/tar.postinst: line 4: install-info: command not found"
> 
> however, i added echo $PATH to the script and it output the correct paths.
> I can su - then run apt-get upgrade without problem.
> then i take out the above line in /etc/sudoers file, sudo apt-get upgrade is fine again.
> 
> anyone had similar problem ? what's ya sudoers file setup for this?

Hi James,

This has been working great for me:

Defaults  env_reset,env_keep+="DISPLAY HOME XAUTHORIZATION"

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