• trevor (he/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Ah, makes sense. It’s easy enough to duplicate the outer ENV for the sub-process, but I don’t know what that means for security and whatnot.