Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 18, 10 16:11:14 +0200, Jan Matejek wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have been bitten by this too many times to count already. After
> setting reasonable permissions for group wheel in sudoers file, i get this:
>
> matejcik@ws-pool1:~> yast2
> Absolute path to 'yast2' is '/sbin/yast2', so running it may require
> superuser privileges (eg. root).
> matejcik@ws-pool1:~> sudo yast2
> sudo: yast2: command not found
>
> the question: how the <cobe> do i convince sudo that it should, in fact,
> use root's path?

Not only sudo's fault. Why the <cobe> was /sbin/ removed from users path 
in the first place? 
Are these tools no longer meant to be called by users:
traceroute, ip, ifconfig, yast, showmount, ...
-> they all have excellent reporting modes, that do not need root
   privileges.

/etc/profile has a section titled 'Make path more comfortable'
    if test "$UID" = 0 ; then
       test -d /opt/kde3/sbin  && PATH=/opt/kde3/sbin:$PATH
       PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
    fi
Anyway, this does not appear to not work for sudo.

cheers,
      JW-

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