On 5 February 2010 01:14, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: >> On 4 February 2010 16:13, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:00:39 -0800 >>> suvayu ali wrote: >>> >>> >>>> As far as I understand this, sudo still uses your (the regular user's) >>>> $PATH. >>>> >>> Nope, that's merely what the docs claim. In fact, the security geeks >>> decided sudo absolutely needed to have a hard coded PATH and as far >>> as I know the only way to fix that is to rebuild it from source. It >>> has been like this for a while now. >>> >> >> Are you sure? I tried this after your post on my lab machine (not >> Fedora though, its Ubuntu 9.04) >> >> $ sudo echo $PATH >> [sudo] password for suvayu: >> /home/suvayu/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/suvayu/root/bin >> >> I see two different directories that I add to $PATH in my >> .bash_profile and .bashrc >> >> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475990 >>> >>> Maybe you could create an alias that runs sudo env PATH=$PATH "$@" >>> or something to sneak the path back into the sudo'ed command... >>> >> >> That Bugzilla says updates have been pushed to F10. Shouldn't that >> mean its fixed in F11 and F12? >> >> > I think you miss one thing.... > > When you do "sudo echo $PATH" $PATH is expanded before the sudo command > is executed since it is an argument to the sudo command. > > To demonstrate what Tom is saying you need to prevent $PATH from being > expanded by using sudo sh -c 'echo $PATH' > > As in... > > [egreshko@f12 ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo $PATH' > /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin What about this then? [sam@samlap ~]$ echo $PATH /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/home/sam/.bin:/opt/real/RealPlayer:/home/sam/.bin [sam@samlap ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo $PATH' /usr/bin:/bin [sam@samlap ~]$ which lvdisplay /sbin/lvdisplay [sam@samlap ~]$ sudo lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID BPwrBK-v6IM-7mkX-pywX-amSI-nACz-xizvzL LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 109.62 GB Current LE 3508 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID F0Nil4-F0Nf-fDX1-5YxX-QEyc-jPGf-kOiRcy LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 1.94 GB Current LE 62 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:1 How can I run lvdisplay via Sudo, if it has a hard-coded path which doesn't include /sbin? (but it is in *my* PATH). Am I being an idiot? -- Sam -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
