Is is possilbe to use environment variables in sudoers rules?

Question

For example, there is a line defining the rule in sudoers file:

%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: $HOME/bin/ls

is it valid? If not, is there an equivalent way to achieve this goal?

Thanks.

Are you trying to get $HOME to expand to the user who is running sudo, or the user who is the destination of the sudo (root in this case)? — Sean Reifschneider, Oct 21 '11 at 06:00

quanta · Answer 1 · 2011-10-21T03:03:00.170

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It is invalid. If you want to keep environment variables when running command via sudo, uncomment/add the following line, for e.g:

Defaults env_keep += "VBOX_APP_HOME"

edited Oct 21 '11 at 03:03

answered Oct 21 '11 at 02:56

quanta

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