Bug 96 – Disappear environment variable

Bug 96 - Disappear environment variable


Summary:	Disappear environment variable

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.6.6
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	normal normal
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2003-01-06 18:50 MST by Jim Easton
Modified:	2003-03-13 23:37 MST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jim Easton 2003-01-06 18:50:18 MST

Hi,

Running on:
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
Kernel 2.4.18-14 on an i686

When I do a sudo to root from my user ID my environment
variable "H" disappears.  If it makes any difference the
value of H is /usr/sunevere/dept/jim.

        Jim

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2003-03-13 19:37:03 MST

It turns out that it is not sudo that is removing this variable.  For instance, you will see the same behavior if you use "su".  It appears that Linux's dynamic loaded (/lib/ld-linux.so.2) is removing that variable (and it seems, most variables that start with H) before sudo even gets executable.  I built a static version of sudo on RedHat 8.0 and it did not exhibit this behavior.