From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 08:54:19 GMT
Subject: [PATCH] Re: To make GIT-VERSION-FILE, search for git more widely
Message-ID: <20090507085419.GB13123@vidovic>
In-Reply-To: <op.utjw1pa71e62zd@merlin.emma.line.org>

The 07/05/09, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Some points:
>
> 1. sudo is the default sysadmin setup on Ubuntu (more so than on openSUSE)
>
> 2. sudo strips the environment by default for security reasons

This is a configuration option that the sysadmin has to set (see
env_keep in man sudoers (5) or http://linux.die.net/man/5/sudoers).

I don't see any good reason to bypass this behaviour since it is what
sysadmins expect.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht