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List:       debian-security
Subject:    Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 946-1] New sudo packages fix privilege
From:       Josselin Mouette <joss () debian ! org>
Date:       2006-01-23 9:08:17
Message-ID: 1138007297.3677.4.camel () silicium ! ccc ! cea ! fr
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Le vendredi 20 janvier 2006 à 11:24 +0100, Martin Schulze a écrit :
> This update alters the former behaviour of sudo and limits the number
> of supported environment variables to LC_*, LANG, LANGUAGE and TERM.
> Additional variables are only passed through when set as env_check in
> /etc/sudoers, which might be required for some scripts to continue to
> work.

How about the XAUTHORITY environment variable ? Isn't it necessary to
run X11 applications?

Regards,
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