Bug 570

Summary:	USER env var no longer set
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Gary van der Merwe <garyvdm>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	low
Version:	1.8.6
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Attachments:	Fix setting USER, USERNAME and LOGNAME in sudoers

Description Gary van der Merwe 2012-09-11 04:15:28 MDT

As of 1.8.6, the USER and USERNAME env var are nolonger set when using sudo.


With 1.8.5.p3-1:
$ sudo env | grep USER
USER=root
USERNAME=root
SUDO_USER=garyvdm

With 1.8.6:
$ sudo env | grep USER
SUDO_USER=garyvdm

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2012-09-11 09:50:00 MDT

Created attachment 355 [details]
Fix setting USER, USERNAME and LOGNAME in sudoers

I've attached the fix for this.  The check for duplicate environment variables was removing those in error.

Comment 2 Gary van der Merwe 2012-09-17 05:07:52 MDT

I upgraded to 1.8.6.p1 from the arch linux repos today. Confirming that the bug is fixed.

Thank you for the quick responce.