topic Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment in Operating System - HP-UX

To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

ozas — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:08:34 GMT

Hi, Pls do any one know how I can sudo to keep SHLIB_PATH environment on HP-UX

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

Jeeshan — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:13:07 GMT

Can you pls define your problem in details?

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:34:30 GMT

Hi:

If you mean that you lose the settings when you 'su' then you need to set:

SU_KEEP_ENV_VARS=SHLIB_PATH

...in '/etc/default/security'

See the manpages for 'security(4)'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

ozas — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:07:04 GMT

My problem in detail is that, I have sudo installed on HP-UX. This work perfectly well except for the mailbox services and the problem was that sudo does not keep the SHLIB_PATH environment. I have created the /etc/default/security and added SU_KEEP_ENV_VARS=SHLIB_PATH and also I have use the env_keep for all the global and local variables in the sudoers file but still does not work. Attahed is the error I get when the mailbox services are started. I will kindly appreciate any hint.

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

ozas — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:07:57 GMT

Attachement

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

Dennis Handly — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:27:57 GMT

>JRF: If you mean that you lose the settings when you 'su' then you need to set:
SU_KEEP_ENV_VARS=SHLIB_PATH

Wasn't the question about sudo?
Doesn't that need -E? (I had to use that since the default had changed.)

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

Jeeshan — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:37:52 GMT

if you wish to set SETENV in sudoers file

e.g.

user1 ALL = (root) NOPASSWD:SETENV:ALL

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

ozas — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:58:52 GMT

Dennis, pls can you explain better.There was a syntax error when I use this
user1 ALL = (root) NOPASSWD:SETENV:ALL

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

Jeeshan — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:42:50 GMT

you may check this link

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1253034

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

ozas — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:05:27 GMT

Hi, I tried to edit the sudoers file to include:
Defaults always_set_home

It gives me the attached error when I restarted the mailbox services.

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

Dennis Handly — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:54:10 GMT

>can you explain better.

sudo -E ...
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudo.html
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1358533

>unix_shell: you may check this link

That may be unrelated to the sudo issue.

Re: To keep SHLIB_PATH environment

ozas — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:12:26 GMT

The environment issue has been resolved.
What I did differently was to add the following to the sudoers file:

Defaults env_keep -= "PATH"

Before now I was using +

Thanks to all the contributions.