UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello.
I am running leap 15.1
sudo behavior may differ from other distrib.


I have a file with functions definition

Code:

....
function_1 {
echo "Hello world"

}
export -f function_1

This file is sourced by both /etc/bash.bashrc.local and profile.local.


So the functions are accessible for every body.
for user root :

Code:

LC_ALL=C type -t function_1

return 'function'
for standard user

Code:

LC_ALL=C type -t function_1

return 'function'
for root user.



Now I write a script named test.sh which contain

#
# test.sh

#
# begin


function_1


# end




and put it in /tmp


Running as standard user :

Code:

:~>/tmp/test

I got

Code:

Hello world

Running as root user :

Code:

:#>/tmp/test

I got

Code:

Hello world

Now as standard user

Code:

sudo /tmp/test.sh

I got :

Code:

:~>sudo /tmp/test.sh
[sudo] password for root: 
/tmp/test.sh: line 1: function_1: command not found

How to give sudo access to exported function.

Now as root user

Code:

sudo /tmp/test.sh

I got :

Code:

:#>sudo /tmp/test.sh
[sudo] password for root: 
/tmp/test.sh: line 1: function_1: command not found

How to give sudo access to exported function.


sudo have access to environment variables which are exported , but not function.


Any help is welcome

These files are used on login. sudo bash is not a login.

Environment variables are external memory designed to be shared. Functions are part of a shell's internals and are not. For sudo bash to have a function, it will need to source that file.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

. /etc/bash.bashrc.local

function_1

sudo often blocks environment variables, by the way, to prevent people putting in strange values for EDITOR and the like and executing them with dangerous privileges.

Hi,

You can preserve your current environment if you have been granted sufficient rights to do so with the -E switch or --preserve-env switch.

Regards

Gull04

My test show that does not work for function as Corona688 just said.


Thank you

--- Post updated at 18:06 ---


That mean that any script I run which need to be started with sudo needs to contains something like that :

Code:

#
# ~/test_001.sh
#

. /path/to/my_list_of_functions


#
# Code followed

#

But if the same script may be run by normal user, my functions will be sourced twice
One times by the login process via /etc/profile.local
One times by the code added on top of script.
What happens ?



Any comment is welcome.