Re: [Duplicity-talk] (no subject)

[Karl O. Pinc]

On 02/16/2013 09:22:38 AM, Paul Barker wrote:

> This may be due to peculiarities of Ubuntu Server 12.04 but on my
> machine I get:
> 
> address@hidden ~ $ sudo env | grep HOME
> HOME=/home/paul
> address@hidden ~ $ sudo -E env | grep HOME
> HOME=/home/paul
> address@hidden ~ $ sudo -H env | grep HOME
> HOME=/root
> 
> This has caught me out before using duplicity, thought it was worth a
> mention on here.

This is because sudo is not the same as logging in as root.
If you really want to have a full root login using sudo do 
something like

sudo su -l

Which gets you a shell as root.  'exit' will exit
the root environment.



Karl <address@hidden>
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