On 07/23/2012 02:37 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:33:17PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris<lists at spuddy.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >>>> Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target >>>> user's login environment? >>> >>> It's "su -" that causes the 'su' comman to rewrite the PATH to the >>> hardcoded default. >>> >> >> But it should be executing the target user's .profile which can >> override it. '-' should be a synonym for -l or --login. > > You've missed the point. I want the ability to set the default path on > 'su -' to be /bin:/usr/bin and then let the users override if they wish. > I do not want the default path to be /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin Have you tried changing the setting for secure_path in /etc/sudoers? The manpage for "sudoers" has some more info about this. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.