Bug 174 – /etc/environment not being sourced by sudo

Bug 174 - /etc/environment not being sourced by sudo


Summary:	/etc/environment not being sourced by sudo

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 83

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.6.8
Hardware:	IBM AIX

Importance:	normal normal
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2005-03-30 07:21 MST by Robin Venables
Modified:	2005-03-30 12:10 MST (History)
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Description Robin Venables 2005-03-30 07:21:16 MST

Environmental variable TZ is set in /etc/environment to GMT0BST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0
From my user ID, this is set, but not if I sudo to another user:

$ echo $TZ
GMT0BST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0
$ date
Wed Mar 30 15:15:42 BST 2005
$ sudo -s
$ date
Wed Mar 30 15:15:50 BST 2005
$ su - oracle
$ date
Wed 30 Mar 15:15:57 2005
$ exit
$ exit
$ sudo -u oracle -i
$ date
Wed Mar 30 14:16:13 UTC 2005
$ 

Can we get sudo to source /etc/environment on AIX?

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2005-03-30 08:10:18 MST

Dupe of bug #83; not fixable until someone gives me access to an AIX 5 machine.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83 ***