On 11/04/18 07:31, Veetil, Vyshnav wrote: > > Hi All, > We are facing an issue with exec sudo command which is resulting in an > infinite loop. > We have one script in which we are checking if $USER is not equal to > root then execute the same script with exec sudo so that it will run > with root. > Code snippet: > script1: > > if [[ "$USER" != "root" ]]; then > exec sudo $0 $@ > fi > If we run the script with some another user say root1 using below > "sudo -u root1 script1" script1 will run in infinite loop. > 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 .. > While in case of Centos 7.3 after running exec sudo command value of > $USER gets updated to root and it works fine > Don't check $USER, use the output from `id -u` Trevor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20180411/69c864d5/attachment-0008.html>