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Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

I don't think it's that simple. The challenge is that you need to still behave as if it's invoked as the user so that the editor uses their configurations instead of simply execing it as root.

I could be wrong though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sudo uses the setuid bit or whatever, so it still has access to the user's environment variables and whatnot. So figuring out which editor to run shouldn't be an issue.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's not what I mean. Yeah, getting the environment variables are simple enough, but if you simply exec something as the root user, whatever you exec will naturally be looking for configs in /root/.config and not your ~/.config dir, so any configurations to things like your text editor won't be read.

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