Re: Debian´s change of "su" to the one in util-linux

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>]

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On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 10:35:34AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
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> And then: How to implement a backup script that needs root access for 
> most operations, but also requires access to SSH agent from a user 
> setup? Dig out the environment variables of the SSH agent myself?

If all you need from the ssh agent is the socket, then just symlink it
to a fixed location trusted both by you and by root, then you can override
$SSH_AUTH_SOCK to the new location, e.g.

if [ -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
	ln -snf "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" fixed_trusted_location
	SSH_AUTH_SOCK=fixed_trusted_location
fi


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