Consolehelper and sudo (was Re: Export)

[Bevan C. Bennett]

William Hooper wrote:
> William Hooper said:
> 
>>So... I don't know what we're chasing.  Using sudo on xterm works from the
>>SSH connection.  Using sudo and consolehelper works locally.  I would
>>suggest filing a bug against userhelper. 
> Ack.  I mean I suggest filing a bug against sudo, since su works.
> 

But sudo's doing nothing wrong. It's consolehelper's fault for trying to 
send X crap around even when you're already root, and getting in the way 
of how administrators used to run these tools (by having /sbin later in 
their PATH).

su works because you end up with root's environment variables (and 
path), thus avoiding consolehelper entirely.

sudo has problems because you still have your own path, and thus run 
into the consolehelper junk.

My workaround has been to have administrators put /sbin and /usr/sbin 
-first- in their personal paths, avoiding consolehelper and the problem.