Re: [Fish-users] sudo and fish functions

[Martin B. <mb...@em...>]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> I don't know what the reasoning behind not setting
> $HOME in sudo is and if it serves any higher purpose, but there are
> various reasons for relying on $HOME to determine the location of ~
> instead of using info from /etc/passwd having to do with wanting to
> install software as another user and such. It should be noted that su
> does change $HOME.

> I don't know how to best resolve this. Perhaps it is a sudo bug?
> Suggestions are welcome.

see the section on -H in the sudo manpage.

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