Re: modprobe on guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Petter <address@hidden> skribis:

>> One solution would be to provide a /etc/environment file containing the
>> right value for LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY (‘sudo’ honors that, according to
>> sudoers(5).)
>
> Yes, this is interesting. When i considered this previously i
> prematurely put it aside because it requires PAM, and i wrongly
> concluded our sudo wasn't configured with PAM (based on package
> definition). On second look, i see PAM is on by default for Linux
> distributions when building sudo; also running  sudo -V  as root user
> confirms this. However, creating /etc/environment and putting stuff
> there doesn't have any effect for me. But i believe the reason is that a
> module needs to be added to linux-pam, namely pam_env[1].

Oh, I see.  Presumably, you need to add ‘pam_env’ to the list of modules
for ‘sudo’, which is currently hardcoded in ‘base-pam-services’ in the
misnamed (gnu system linux) module.

> I'd like to have a go at this and see if i can make a patch for this.

That’d be great!

> Maybe it makes sense to put /all/ the environment variables, especially
> for root operations, in /etc/environment? From what i understand
> variables from outside this file will not be expanded, so if not it
> would mean duplicating definitions. Also, having this as a
> just-for-those-sudo-users would be easy for root users to miss
> updating. Then obviously root logins would have to make use of this file
> as well, but i'm sure that can be arranged. I'll look more into this.

What other variables do you have in mind?

Thanks,
Ludo’.