On Sunday 15 April 2007, Bdale Garbee wrote: > tags 419394 +moreinfo > severity 419394 normal > thanks > > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 17:38 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Most recent upgrade of sudo no longer can execute something on the path, > > for example, $KDEDIR/bin/some-kde-app. If I explicitely give it this path > > string, it works just fine. May be related to #383389 > > > > (Bug or feature? If feature, one might let administrator override such a > > restriction by entry in sudoers.) > > The Debian package of sudo has been built for years with > > --with-secure-path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:\ > /sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" > > As of 1.6.8p12, the behavior relative to env_reset was changed... and as > of 1.6.8p12-5, I'm no longer building with --with-exempt=sudo... see the > package changelog in /usr/share/doc/sudo for more details. > > Given that, I'm confident that there will be cases where sudo behaves > differently than it did in the past, and those changes are very > intentional. After looking over the changelog, please let me know if > you still think something is "broken" in the package. > > Bdale
As I said, bug or feature? Assuming nothing is broken, that this change was put in for a more secure sudo, how might one configure to be able to use the normal PATH? Of course, one can always simply enter a complete or scripted path. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
