Consolehelper and sudo (was Re: Export)

[Rick Stevens]

William Hooper wrote:
> Bevan C. Bennett said:
> 
>>su works because you end up with root's environment variables (and
>>path), thus avoiding consolehelper entirely.
> 
> 
> No you don't:
> 
> [whooper at kenny whooper]$ su -c printenv | grep PATH
> Password:
> JAVA_PATH=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/bin:/home/whooper/bin
> [whooper at kenny whooper]$ sudo printenv | grep PATH
> JAVA_PATH=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/bin:/home/whooper/bin
> 
> [whooper at kenny whooper]$ su -c "which up2date"
> Password:
> /usr/bin/up2date
> [whooper at kenny whooper]$ sudo which up2date
> /usr/bin/up2date
> [whooper at kenny whooper]$
> 
> I assume they use xauth differently and that is why one works and the
> other doesn't.

"su" simply changes your UID and GID to root's.  "su -" gives you root's
environment as well.
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