[Bug 982684] Re: sudo doesn't apply global environment settings from /etc/environment

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Not to mention that when user does not set proxy for apt (in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d), then neither "sudo apt-get ..." nor "sudo aptitude ... " nor update-manager at large work. And my guess is that whatever is the GUI tool provided in Ubuntu to set proxy, it does not configure apt proxy.
One has to resort to sudo -i followed by the command. Then proxy is set.
Solving this ticket should also solve these issues.

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Title:
  sudo doesn't apply global environment settings from /etc/environment

Status in “sudo” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “sudo” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “sudo” source package in Quantal:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  In connection with the recent update-notifier changes
  (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/UpdateNotifierPackageDataDownloader),
  some users who were previously able to download the flashplugin via
  the apt proxy settings are now unable to download it when running,
  e.g., 'sudo apt-get install'.

  The reason for this is that, even though a global proxy may be
  configured in /etc/environment, sudo does not allow $http_proxy to be
  inherited by default and does not reapply the environment from
  /etc/environment (and from /etc/default/locale) via pam_env.

  The first part is reasonable, but I question the second part.  Since
  these are global config files, I believe it's safe for sudo to apply
  the environment settings by default just as 'su' does; and the
  settings are intended to apply globally, which would include to sudo
  sessions.

  This would make update-notifier work more reliably for users with
  proxies, and would probably help with a variety of other cases where
  global variables are currently not being set as expected for sudo.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: sudo 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 017452a27eca3c8b498abbfa5ef91db9
  CheckboxSystem: ecaaad6fa1e0799a0aa1126bf620f39e
  Date: Sun Apr 15 16:41:17 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: sudo
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (159 days ago)

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