Re: Debian sid root path issue

[Joseph Lenox <lenox.joseph@gmail.com>]

On 09/19/2011 09:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Just recently a new sudo entered Wheezy Testing and it changed the 
> behavior of secure_path. See Bug#639841 for details. It no longer 
> overrides your path with a standard system PATH by default. So now 
> unless you set it in your /etc/suders file it will use the PATH it 
> started with and if you don't already add the /usr/sbin and other 
> paths then it won't either. 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639841 Quick fix: Add 
> this line to your /etc/sudoers file. Defaults 
> secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"Bob 

Thanks for the info; problem solved.