On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:19:43PM +0100, Samuel Contesse wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer. > > sudo -i simulate the initial shell, actually this is not what I'm > looking for. > > On Debian systems, this is the default behaviour. Sudo is meant to follow the user's PATH unless it has been compiled with the SECURE_PATH option. Ubuntu (and I think Debian) may compile with that option. It's not the default compile time option. -- rgds Stephen