Disable environment settings

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:36, Kenny Lussier wrote:

> Unfortunately, people get tired of typing it when they need to run  
> 100+
> commands as another user to diagnose a problem.

Yeah, me too. :)

Are they special programs or common utilities?

If they're special, you can wrap them, e.g.:

/usr/local/bin/foobar:

   #!/bin/sh
   sudo /usr/local/realbin/foobar $*

If you're dealing with mv, cp, ln, and friends this gets less happy.

-Bill
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