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Bug 146230

Summary: su does not preserve environment if told to
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Oliver Weichhold <oliver>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Oliver Weichhold 2006-09-04 01:49:51 UTC
I "su -m" from my ssh login user to root. According to the manual this option should preserve the environment. Unfortunately the -m, -p, --preserve-environment options are completely ignored.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-09-04 01:51:15 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135705 ***