[ILUG] sudo and PATH

[Niall Sheridan]

Check for the presence of env_reset in your sudoers file.

 Niall

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 18:19, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie> wrote:
> Something to do with sudo has changed recently, and I'm confused. I've
> had a number of "sudo apt-get update" fail due to not finding ldconfig
> (running apt-get explicitly as root works perfectly), and today I ran a
> script that had a "sudo rmmod" line in it and that failed too. It turns
> out that these commands are no longer in the PATH sudo sees, but they
> used to be.
>
> In my current setup (Debian unstable) sudo has exactly the same path as
> my shell, which (on googling) I understand to be The Right Thing.
>
> Any idea what the change might be? Have these programs moved? Has sudo's
> behaviour changed?
>
> Brendan
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