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Using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I'm having a problem trying to read environment variables from /etc/environment when using sudo env. Basically, they are not being displayed. When I do just env, these variables appear like it should.

In my other server, which is running Ubuntu 13.04, both sudo env and env display variables from /etc/environment.

How do I get sudo env to read the environment variables set in /etc/environment in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

UPDATE - 2014-07-14

I checked /etc/pam.d/sudo, and they are exactly the same:-

#%PAM-1.0

auth       required   pam_env.so readenv=1 user_readenv=0
auth       required   pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale user_readenv=0
@include common-auth
@include common-account
@include common-session-noninteractive
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    `/etc/environment` is used by `pam_env`. Check `/etc/pam.d` on both hosts. I'm betting one of them is different. – phemmer Jul 11 '14 at 21:44
  • @Patrick, I updated my question above. Both files are the same, am I checking the wrong files here? Thanks. – limc Jul 14 '14 at 12:39
  • I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and `sudo env` works for me. It must be something other than distro version difference. – Oleg Pryadko Jul 15 '14 at 00:29
  • Check with `--login`; that will help remove sudo settings that could be allowing existing environment variables through. I've confirmed the behaviour with `--login` and I suspect that this is a bug. – cjs Feb 27 '18 at 11:28

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