In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, why sudo -i isn't passing arguments containing spaces?

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Issue

  • The "-i" option to sudo causes arguments that contain spaces to be split into multiple arguments.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.9
  • sudo-1.7.2p1-22.el5_9.1

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