[sudo-users] Sudo keeps using the same binary although PATH is different when invoking with sudo.
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Mon Mar 3 09:26:17 MST 2014
On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 20:44:13 +0000, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
> There's some chance it's the shell that modifies it not sudo. In that case
> what command can I use to check what's the PATH when using sudo (so that
> shell would not interfere)?
The env command is useful for this. E.g.
$ sudo env | grep PATH
That will show you the PATH sudo has set without a shell in the way.
> [user at localhost ~]$ sudo -l
> Matching Defaults entries for user on this host:
> requiretty, !visiblepw, env_reset, env_keep="COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME
> HISTSIZE INPUTRC KDEDIR LS_COLORS MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME LANG LC_ADDRESS
> LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES
> LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE
> LINGUAS _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY"
Based on that output I would not expect sudo to modify the PATH.
- todd
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