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From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] Re: To make GIT-VERSION-FILE, search for git more widely
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:54:19 +0200
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The 07/05/09, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Some points:
>
> 1. sudo is the default sysadmin setup on Ubuntu (more so than on openSUSE)
>
> 2. sudo strips the environment by default for security reasons

This is a configuration option that the sysadmin has to set (see
env_keep in man sudoers (5) or http://linux.die.net/man/5/sudoers).

I don't see any good reason to bypass this behaviour since it is what
sysadmins expect.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht