On 4 February 2010 16:13, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:00:39 -0800 > suvayu ali wrote: > >> As far as I understand this, sudo still uses your (the regular user's) >> $PATH. > > Nope, that's merely what the docs claim. In fact, the security geeks > decided sudo absolutely needed to have a hard coded PATH and as far > as I know the only way to fix that is to rebuild it from source. It > has been like this for a while now. Are you sure? I tried this after your post on my lab machine (not Fedora though, its Ubuntu 9.04) $ sudo echo $PATH [sudo] password for suvayu: /home/suvayu/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/suvayu/root/bin I see two different directories that I add to $PATH in my .bash_profile and .bashrc > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475990 > > Maybe you could create an alias that runs sudo env PATH=$PATH "$@" > or something to sneak the path back into the sudo'ed command... That Bugzilla says updates have been pushed to F10. Shouldn't that mean its fixed in F11 and F12? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
