On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:05 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote: > I did an sudo for something that needed a program that was in root's > normal path but wasn't in my normal path (I don't login as root > straight away). You can fix this by making sure that your path > include /sbin and /usr/sbin. I also stick things in /usr/local/sbin > out of habit so you may find that you need that too. I was under the impression that normal users should *never* have any of the sbin directories in his or her PATH. I never fully understood why, either. A few binaries in there run as set UID root, so perhaps it's a security feature? --Peter
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