Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx> [2010-08-18 16:29]:
> 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.

It does if you use sudo -s to start a shell.

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Guido Berhoerster
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