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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users sudo environment setting? Post 302278990 by nixnoob on Wednesday 21st of January 2009 04:26:36 PM
Old 01-21-2009
sudo environment setting?
Hi, first post. As the nick suggests I'm a Unix noob, but I'm doing everything I can to learn fast...job requirement. These forums have been a huge help so far.


I have a server running HP-UX 11.23b with Apache/2.0.59 HP-UX_Apache-based_Web_Server.

Apache is not installed in the default location and an issue (not highly important but irritating) has popped up suddenly. No one thus far has a clue how to fix it.

It only involves invoking some Apache commands using sudo. This environment variable disappears (LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/web/app/hpws/apache/lib) when using sudo. For instance, type env at the command line and that variable is displayed in the output. Type sudo env at the command line and that environment variable doesn't exist in the output. I've checked and it's set in the /etc/profile and I've even gone so far as to set it in my .profile file, nothing works when using the sudo command.

My question is this, does anyone know how to set the system environment so that all users have the variable set when they use the sudo command without having to go through a bunch of commands to set it when they need it?

Any help is appreciated.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

viewsudo

VIEW-OS(1)						      General Commands Manual							VIEW-OS(1)

NAME

       viewsudo - execute a command as another (virtual) user

SYNOPSIS

       viewsudo [-g groupname|#gid] [-u username|#uid] command

DESCRIPTION

       viewsudo allows a user to execute a command as the superuser or
	      another user in View-OS.

OPTIONS

       viewsudo accepts the following command line options:

       -g group
	   Normally,  viewsudo	sets the primary group to root.  The -g option causes sudo to run the specified command with the primary group set
	   to group.  To specify a gid instead of a group name, use #gid.  When running commands as a gid, many shells require	that  the  '#'	be
	   escaped  with  a  backslash	('[u2019]).   If  no -u option is specified, the command will be run as the invoking user (not root).	In
	   either case, the primary group will be set to group.

       -u user
	   The -u option causes viewsudo to run the specified command as a user other than root.  To specify a uid instead of  a  user	name,  use
	   #uid.  When running commands as a uid, many shells require that the '#' be escaped with a backslash ('[u2019]).

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful execution of a program, the exit status from viewsudo will simply be the exit status of the program that was executed.

SEE ALSO

       viewsu(1), sudo(1), linux.defs(5)

AUTHORS

       View-OS is a project of the Computer Science Department, University of Bologna. Project Leader: Renzo Davoli.
       <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/view-os>

       Howto's and further information can be found on the project wiki <wiki.virtualsquare.org>.

NOTE

       Most part of the text is taken from sudo(1).

VIEW-OS: a process with a view					  August 8, 2009							VIEW-OS(1)
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