And while you're at it, you might as well supply the full path to su. Quite a while ago I was taught to give the full path to su. This instruction was given with a warning that it's more secure in case a malicious user was able to get a command named 'su' into your path ahead of the binary you're intending to execute.

I use: sudo /bin/su -

Although, presumably under this logic, someone could have snuck another binary in named 'sudo', too. To take my own medicine, I should be doing: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/su -

Putting my $0.02 in where it wasn't necessarily asked for, --bradoaks

On 7/21/07, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:

centos wrote:

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Hello

Any time I am running sudo, I should have full path to the command, for example sudo /sbin/ifconfig

Is there any way to set the path for sudo ?

use this command to get that (instead of just sudo):

sudo su -

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Brad Oaks wrote:

And while you're at it, you might as well supply the full path to su.

indeed, many traditional Unix (such as Solaris) admins tend to type the full path to most all admin commands, so you're sure you're running the correct stuff.

Sorry for my typo error - should have been:

Modify your ~./bash_profile and add /sbin to your PATH.

cheers!

On 7/22/07, Eduardo Dela Rosa eduardo.delarosa@gmail.com wrote:

Modify your ~/.bash_profile and /sbin to your path, i.e.,

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin

On 7/22/07, centos centos@unixplanet.biz wrote:

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Hello

Any time I am running sudo, I should have full path to the command, for example sudo /sbin/ifconfig

Is there any way to set the path for sudo ?

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