Michael C. Toren on 1 May 2006 18:46:01 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] how to get sudo to preserve LD_PRELOAD


On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:57:41PM -0400, Daniel Crosta wrote:
> Turns out it (seems to be) that ld.so is removing the LD_PRELOAD 
> environment variable for setuid root binaries (eg sudo, su), not sudo 
> itself.

As Sean pointed out, this is really for the best.  But there are a few
ways to do it safely -- for example, writing a shell script wrapper for
your command that sets the appropriate LD_PRELOAD value, then runs the
desired command.

-mct
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