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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Hi All, </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">We are facing an issue with exec sudo command which is resulting in an infinite loop. </span><br>
<span style="background:white">We have one script in which we are checking if $USER is not equal to root then execute the same script with exec sudo so that it will run with root. </span><br>
<span style="background:white">Code snippet: </span><br>
<span style="background:white">script1: </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">if [[ "$USER" != "root" ]]; then </span><br>
<span style="background:white"> exec sudo $0 $@ </span><br>
<span style="background:white">fi </span><br>
<span style="background:white">If we run the script with some another user say root1 using below </span><br>
<span style="background:white">"sudo -u root1 script1" script1 will run in infinite loop. </span><br>
<span style="background:white">In CentOS 7.4 when exec sudo command runs , the value of $USER remains same i.e root1 and again it enters and if block and execute the scipt1 and so on .. </span><br>
<span style="background:white">While in case of Centos 7.3 after running exec sudo command value of $USER gets updated to root and it works fine</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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