Re: How do I set up sudo..

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:35:32AM -0800, Alou Dialy wrote:
> I figured out that I didnt have /sbin and /usr/sbin in
> my PATH but how come when I do sudo env it does show
> those directories in my PATH ?
> 
> The man page for sudo or sudoers says that sudo does
> modify PATH but it doesnt say how and it doesnt say
> how it tries to find the command that you give it.
> 
> Is there a way to set up sudo so that I dont have to
> type the full path to the command.

How about an alias in your own .bash_aliases?

alias shutdown "sudo /sbin/shutdown"

Or something?

Doug.