On 4 February 2010 17:14, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Ah! that explains it. Thanks! :) -- 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
