698 - 'su' does not pick up customized environmental variables

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>  It used to be that issuing 'su' put me into root, but kept the

that's a relatively recent (sometime in the last 12 months in most
distros?) tightening of su/sudo env var cleanups. They used to cleanup
some env vars that were known to be harmful, and now they only
preserve a couple of safe env vars. Very sane, correct... and
annoying! :-)

cheers,



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