On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0500, Karlos Smith wrote: > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471603), *adding* /sbin > /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin to the path when sudoing root makes sense, > but hardcoding the path has messed me up. I have scripts that I allow > non-root users to execute through sudo without a password, I don't put > those scripts in any of the *bin dirs, but the script dir is in the > users $PATH. [...] > And while it was possible for people to add to their path to work around > the previous issue, I'm SOL, because there's no way to work around > "secure-path". > Is this really the right thing to do? Yes. The tab-completion thing working is a side-effect -- the more important thing is no surprises. How about a compromise -- add /usr/local/sbin to the secure path? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect Cyberinfrastructure Labs Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
