$HOME changed by sudo

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:20:46PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:

> >I detected that sudo in natty changes $HOME to /root [1]. Is this a bug
> >or a changed configuration?

> >It had the bad side effect that "sudo pbuilder" didn't find
> >~/.pbuilderrc.

> >[1] sudo sh -c 'echo $HOME'

> Isn't this an effect of sudo no longer preserving the environment by default?
> I've seen that behavior since Maverick.  It's why 'sudo -E' is now in my
> muscle memory. ;)

> $ sudo -E sh -c 'echo $HOME'

No, $HOME had been whitelisted internally.  The behavior in maverick vs.
natty is different from what I see, despite 'env_reset' being the default.

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