Sam Sharpe wrote: > On 5 February 2010 01:14, 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 $PATH' >> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin >> > > What about this then? > > [sam@samlap ~]$ echo $PATH > /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/home/sam/.bin:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/home/sam/.bin > > [sam@samlap ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo $PATH' > /usr/bin:/bin > > [sam@samlap ~]$ which lvdisplay > /sbin/lvdisplay > > [sam@samlap ~]$ sudo lvdisplay > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > VG Name VolGroup00 > LV UUID BPwrBK-v6IM-7mkX-pywX-amSI-nACz-xizvzL > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 1 > LV Size 109.62 GB > Current LE 3508 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors auto > - currently set to 256 > Block device 253:0 > > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 > VG Name VolGroup00 > LV UUID F0Nil4-F0Nf-fDX1-5YxX-QEyc-jPGf-kOiRcy > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > # open 1 > LV Size 1.94 GB > Current LE 62 > Segments 1 > Allocation inherit > Read ahead sectors auto > - currently set to 256 > Block device 253:1 > > How can I run lvdisplay via Sudo, if it has a hard-coded path which > doesn't include /sbin? (but it is in *my* PATH). Am I being an idiot? > > Try running.... sudo sh -c 'lvdisplay' -- Mene, mene, tekel, upharsen.
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