Disable environment settings

[Coleman Kane]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:49 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, especially with the always annoying:
/usr/local/sudobin/ln -sf /home/mydir/mypwnedshadow /etc/shadow

> 
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