No /sbin PATH after sudo in Fedora 12 even after the PATH is added in .bash_profile

[suvayu ali]

On 4 February 2010 16:13, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:00:39 -0800
> suvayu ali wrote:
>
>> As far as I understand this, sudo still uses your (the regular user's)
>> $PATH.
>
> Nope, that's merely what the docs claim. In fact, the security geeks
> decided sudo absolutely needed to have a hard coded PATH and as far
> as I know the only way to fix that is to rebuild it from source. It
> has been like this for a while now.

Are you sure? I tried this after your post on my lab machine (not
Fedora though, its Ubuntu 9.04)

$ sudo echo $PATH
[sudo] password for suvayu:
/home/suvayu/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/suvayu/root/bin

I see two different directories that I add to $PATH in my
.bash_profile and .bashrc

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475990
>
> Maybe you could create an alias that runs sudo env PATH=$PATH "$@"
> or something to sneak the path back into the sudo'ed command...

That Bugzilla says updates have been pushed to F10. Shouldn't that
mean its fixed in F11 and F12?

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Suvayu

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