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Sudo doesnt retain settings of ~/.config (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 month ago by clot27@lemm.ee to c/nix@programming.dev
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Whenever I run any command line tools without sudo, they take the settings as in ~/.config and work fine. But whenever I run the same CLI tools with same parameters but with sudo, it falls back to default setting. How can I make this behavior consistent?

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[–] toyvo@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Generally define the same config options for the root user in /root/.config

[–] sudo@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

I run commands as the root user so I use the root users configs. Usually that's in /root/.config/ but it might be different in NixOS.

You'll have to either copy your configs over to the root users config dirs. I highly recommend auditing what you copy though for security.