Jim Crumley wrote: >On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:47:28AM -0500, Jima wrote: > > >> This is a good point to bring up. With the default configuration of >>RedHat (and probably most distros), if you log in as root or use `su -`, >>it'll load root's environment, including putting /sbin & /usr/sbin in the >>$PATH. If you use `sudo` or just `su`, though, it won't load the >>environment, and programs in /sbin and /usr/sbin won't run without the >>full path (i.e., /usr/sbin/program). This was news to a few people at the >>installfest, and to this day catches me on occasion. >> >> > >Well, this is not true for Debian at least. With Debian, sudo and >su seem to load the root's path settings. > >14(plasma) jcrumley% which fdisk >fdisk: Command not found. >15(plasma) jcrumley% sudo fdisk > >Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device >E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk) > or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk) > or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive) > or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0 or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID devices) > ... >16(plasma) jcrumley% sudo which fdisk >/sbin/fdisk > > > > Of all the distros I've tried (and that's quite a few), Redhat is the only that exhibits this behavior. I always just considered it an extra little (annoying)security "feature". All this does is keep your average user from accidentally screwing something up by sudo-ing a command they have no clue how to use. I still just found it annoying. ---- The Wandering Dru <dru at druswanderings.net> http://druswanderings.net _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list