rfe: add SUDO_HOME variable
stsp opened this issue · 3 comments
Hi, would it be possible to set the
SUDO_HOME
variable before the
HOME
variable is modified?
If HOME
is preserved, then the program
that creates any files in a home dir,
should first setuid() to the SUDO_UID
.
If HOME
is not preserved, then no need
to change uid before creating files.
But currently sudo provides no means
to find if the HOME
was preserved or
not. Therefore it would be good to add
SUDO_HOME
, the same way as all the
other important variables are saved.
Thank you!
I had to use the wrapper script to do
if [ -n "$SUDO_USER" -a -z "$SUDO_HOME" ]; then
export SUDO_HOME=`getent passwd "$SUDO_USER" | cut -d: -f6`
fi
which now won't be needed.
You may also consider providing
some variable to indicate if the HOME
was changed or not.
Even though currently I can already
evaluate this by comparing SUDO_HOME
and HOME
, who knows who else could
change HOME
in between...
Since changed/unchanged HOME
influences on the program logic a lot
(needs setuid() before creating files,
if HOME
was not changed),
it may make sense to add such an
indicator.