From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-05-20T11:01:06+09:00
Subject: Re: sudo ruby loosing environment?



On May 19, 3:46 pm, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+r...@anthropohedron.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 04:07:13AM +0900, Trans wrote:
> > My Ruby installation is from the Ubuntu package repository. Yesterday,
> > I upgraded my system to Heron and since then one of my Ruby scripts
> > stopped working. I traced the problem to this:
>
> >   $ ruby -e"p ENV['ROLL_PATH']"
> >   "/home/trans/Company/TigerOps/programs"
>
> >   $ sudo ruby -e"p ENV['ROLL_PATH']"
> >   nil
>
> > At first I though it might have something to do with sudo itself, but:
>
> Yes, it's sudo. Your test is flawed.
>
> >   $ echo $ROLL_PATH
> >   /home/trans/Company/TigerOps/programs
>
> >   $ sudo echo $ROLL_PATH
> >   /home/trans/Company/TigerOps/programs
>
> $ROLL_PATH is interpreted by the shell before sudo is ever invoked.
>
> > So that's not it. Anyone have any idea what's going on?
>
> [...]
>
> This is unrelated to Ruby or Ubuntu. This is how sudo works. Read the
> sudoers man page, looking for env_keep. You will need to edit the
> /etc/sudoers file (with visudo, not directly).

Ok. That makes sense. Though I don't yet understand what changed --it
was working fine before the dist-upgrade.

Thanks,
T.