sudoers files and apt-get upgrade

[James. Q Li]

--- Vince Hillier <vince-WxfNDWQh5LNIo2TaICnI/Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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"

works like a charm. thanks!

> 
> -- 
> Vince Hillier vince-WxfNDWQh5LNIo2TaICnI/Q at public.gmane.org
> System Administrator

James.

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