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  1. Bug #982684
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 982684

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 982684] Re: sudo, pkexec don't apply global environment settings from /etc/environment

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:59:35AM -0000, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> Sudo already parses /etc/environment when used with the -i option. If
> our goal is to have it always parse /etc/environment, how about simply
> doing the following?

Because there may be other pam modules that also need to set environment
variables for proper operation. pam_krb5 or pam_afs, perhaps?

> I still need to think about the security ramifications in doing so though.

Sure, understood.

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