How do I sudo environment?

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I am using spamassassin in a php script, but when I train spamassassin as my user the php script's exec command to call spamassassin get the untrained version because of the user specific nature of sa-learn. So I need to sudo to my user in the exec command and get the environment of my user along with the premissions

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '09 at 16:55

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sudo -u <username> <command> ...

answered Jul 15 '09 at 16:55

eduffy

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Tried that uses the prefence files of the users calling sudo not the user in sudo – kman99 Jul 15 '09 at 17:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 15 '09 at 17:18

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sudo -H -u <username> <command>

The -H flag sets the $HOME environment variable. Without setting this flag, SpamAssassin is probably looking in the old user's homedir for settings.

answered Jul 15 '09 at 17:18

pix0r

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How do I sudo environment?

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