Bug 688

Summary:	Documentation of -e appears to be wrong (or at least misleading)
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Reuben Thomas <rrt>
Component:	Sudoers	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	low
Version:	1.8.11
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Reuben Thomas 2015-03-13 16:31:36 MDT

The sudo man page says: "Note that unlike most commands run by sudo, the editor is run with the invoking user's environment unmodified." However, this is not quite true, at least in some circumstances: on my system PATH is set to the secure_path default setting. Is it just the rest of env_reset that is not performed?

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2015-03-17 10:50:53 MDT

When the sudoers policy was split into a seoarate module for sudo 1.8.x the environment handling for sudoedit was changed to be the same as for regular sudo.  I consider this to be a bug in sudoedit rather than a documentation bug.  As such I've just checked in a change to make the behavior match the documentation (and sudo 1.7.x)

http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/a5081c8f6950

The fix will be in the upcoming sudo 1.8.13 release.

Comment 2 Reuben Thomas 2015-03-17 14:40:00 MDT

Thanks very much for the explanation and notification of fix.

Comment 3 Todd C. Miller 2015-03-21 19:15:37 MDT

Fixed in sudo 1.8.13, available now.