How to pass an environment variable after Sudo?
Environment variables can be simply passed after sudo in form ENV=VALUE and thay’ll be accepted by followed command. It’s not known to me if there are restrictions to this usage, so my example problem can be solved with:
What kind of environment do I get with sudo?
When I run sudo command, it doesn’t seem to see my or root’s environment. For example, my path for both includes /usr/local/bin, but if I try to run one of the program’s without the full path, it fails. I thought sudo ran as root, and hence got root`s environment.
When to use env _ keep in Sudo visudo?
The security policy may return an error if the user does not have permission to preserve the environment. You need to edit your sudoers by sudo visudo as possibly you’ve security policy plugin enabled which overrides your PATH by secure_path option. So add the path to the list and you can also use env_keep instead, for example:
What’s the difference between Sudo and Sudo Su?
Otherwise, an interactive shell is executed. sudo attempts to change to that user’s home directory before running the shell. It also initializes the environment, leaving DISPLAY and TERM unchanged, setting HOME, MAIL, SHELL, USER, LOGNAME, and PATH, as well as the contents of /etc/environment on Linux and AIX systems.
Where can I set global Java options in Linux?
I am using java-7-openjdk on Arch Linux. (FWIW this used to be okay with the now-broken jre7-openjdk-headless-infinality installed.) You know how to set the variable in a shell, but for the record you can write: and all programs you start from this shell session after that will have the variable set.
How to keep environment variables when…Stack Overflow?
The security policy may return an error if the user does not have permission to preserve the environment. The trick is to add environment variables to sudoers file via sudo visudo command and add these lines: taken from ArchLinux wiki.