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Old 05-22-2008
Can I export the users environment using sudo?
I want the user to be able to commands as another user.. but when they do that.. I need them to have the environment variables of the other user. is this possible with sudo?

sudo -H -u user env

'env' is giving me the environment of the current user, not the user I want to run commands as.

Hope this makes sense (it does in my head Smilie )
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Old 05-22-2008
Try:
Code:
sudo su - <username> -c <command>

 
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