[rhelv6-list] mailx using real uid instead of effective uid

[Francis Swasey]

On 7/7/11 3:14 PM, John Haxby wrote:
>
>
> On 27 June 2011 15:20, Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey at uvm.edu <mailto:Frank.Swasey at uvm.edu>> wrote:
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>     Has anyone figured out a way to get mailx in RHEL6 to use the effective uid instead of
>     the real
>     uid (other than modifying the scripts that are being run via sudo to include the "-r root"
>     parameter on the mailx command)?
>
>
> sudo sets the real and effective UIDs to the same thing.
>
> I suspect (but can't confirm at the moment) that either sudo is letting through an
> environment variable that is setting the originator .    Does "sudo printenv" list anything
> not obviously belonging to root?  Does root's .mailrc try to do something with SUDO_USER?

sudo printenv doesn't show anything that on the face of it is not root's.  And root doesn't
have a .mailrc, nor does the /etc/mail.rc file reference SUDO_USER, and moving /etc/mail.rc to
a different name doesn't fix anything either.  I'm thinking I have to open a bugzilla with RH
on this.

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