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

[Steve Langasek]

** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu Quantal)
     Assignee: Steve Langasek (vorlon) => Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

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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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