Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> darkestkhan wrote:
> > Stephen Allen wrote:
> > > Unfortuantely the suggested fix didn't work.
>
> Just recently a new sudo entered Wheezy Testing and it changed the
> behavior of secure_path. See Bug#639841 for details. But it means
> that you need to add this line too:
>
> Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
>
> In addition to the other line:
>
> username ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>
> > It has to be noted that things worked well without merging changes in
> > /etc/sudoers as long as programs were run by me - if program run by me
> > with root privileges was running different program then I got errors
> > that it can't find things in /sbin (and thus I knew that I have to
> > look at changes in /etc/sudoers)
>
> Your PATH problem in Wheezy/Sid is the same thing. See Bug#639841.
> Add the secure_path line above and it will work for you again.
>
> Bob
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Cool, thanks Bob.
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