X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsudo.man.in;h=435e305ca8e1d092477c5cc44aa530e3c3b5e3fb;hb=db542536bfb942d0168310cac588babc62657621;hp=1d5ca058c275a65d811a820d6482779abb524700;hpb=7a01b10fee894dea7ecb3252886912eab41e9693;p=debian%2Fsudo diff --git a/doc/sudo.man.in b/doc/sudo.man.in index 1d5ca05..435e305 100644 --- a/doc/sudo.man.in +++ b/doc/sudo.man.in @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "SUDO @mansectsu@" -.TH SUDO @mansectsu@ "May 16, 2011" "1.8.1p2" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS" +.TH SUDO @mansectsu@ "August 17, 2011" "1.8.2" "MAINTENANCE COMMANDS" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ may be a value from 1 through 9. .IP "\-E" 12 .IX Item "-E" The \fB\-E\fR (\fIpreserve\fR \fIenvironment\fR) option indicates to the -security policy that the uses wishes to preserve their existing +security policy that the user wishes to preserve their existing environment variables. The security policy may return an error if the \fB\-E\fR option is specified and the user does not have permission to preserve the environment. @@ -361,7 +361,10 @@ If no command is specified, an interactive shell is executed. \&\fBsudo\fR attempts to change to that user's home directory before running the shell. The security policy shall initialize the environment to a minimal set of variables, similar to what is present -when a user logs in. +when a user logs in. The \fICommand Environment\fR section in the +\&\fIsudoers\fR\|(@mansectform@) manual documents how the \fB\-i\fR option affects the +environment in which a command is run when the \fIsudoers\fR policy +is in use. .IP "\-K" 12 .IX Item "-K" The \fB\-K\fR (sure \fIkill\fR) option is like \fB\-k\fR except that it removes