suvayu ali wrote: > 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? > > I think you miss one thing.... When you do "sudo echo $PATH" $PATH is expanded before the sudo command is executed since it is an argument to the sudo command. To demonstrate what Tom is saying you need to prevent $PATH from being expanded by using sudo sh -c 'echo $PATH' As in... [egreshko@f12 ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo $PATH' /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin -- The FALAFEL SANDWICH lands on my HEAD and I become a VEGETARIAN... is a barbecued OYSTER! Yum!
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