Did you try sudo su -? sudo su - is equivalent to su - which is a login shell.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.hors...@att.net> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:56:17 -0500 (EST) > Steven W. Orr wrote: > > > Let's say for arguments sake that you're correct. Regardless, what sort > of > > suggestion does anyone have to allow Tom to do what he wants? Yes he may > > be doing it wrong, but right now he's not doing it at all. > > Actually, I just downloaded the source rpm and rebuilt with a different > hard coded path that included /usr/local/bin, which was the main > missing bit that caused me lots of grief. > > It does seem odd to me that it is essential for proper security to > have sudo restrict the PATH to just /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > yet if I login as root, the PATH is: > > > /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/NX/bin:/root/bin > > Shouldn't proper security dictate that root's login PATH be just > as restricted as sudo's built-in PATH? :-). > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >
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