#6316 HIGH Never A: become_root is broken.

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#6316: become_root is broken.
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  Reporter:  cscott  |       Owner:  mstone        
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  distro  |     Version:                
Resolution:          |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:  5537          
 Blockedby:          |  
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Changes (by cscott):

  * blocking:  => 5537


Comment:

 Correction: 'sudo -i', like 'su -', explicitly asks for an environment
 like 'initial login', which both sudo and su interpret to mean that
 extraneous environment variables should be removed.  become_root should
 run 'sudo -s' if sudo exists, otherwise 'su' (without the dash).  Really,
 'become_root' should just be replaced by a symlink to /bin/su, if it must
 exist at all.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6316#comment:2>
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