$HOME changed by sudo

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.02.2011, 18:20 -0500 schrieb Barry Warsaw:
> 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?

No. My maverick machine has "Defaults env_reset" in /etc/sudors and the
command from [1] still returns my home directory.

Looking at the man page of sudo, I found -H saying "By default, sudo
does not modify HOME"

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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