On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:39:22 -0500, Junqian Gordon Xu <xjq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> setting in /etc/sudoers  
> 
> # User privilege specification
> root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
> sudoer  ALL=(ALL) ALL

Does /etc/sudoers have a line like:

Defaults        secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/
sbin:/bin"

If not, then the problem is likely that /usr/sbin is not in the secure path.

> e.g.
> 
> $> ls -la /usr/sbin/vpnc
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113508 Nov  9  2010 /usr/sbin/vpnc
> 
> $> sudo vpnc
> sudo: vpnc: command not found

Does specifying the fully qualified path, like 'sudo /usr/sbin/vpnc', work?

Bdale

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