[sudo-users] Setting PATH

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Wed Oct 22 23:16:42 EDT 2008


In message <OFEBA5CCC8.7B3055AD-ON852574EA.0042BFFA-852574EA.00438B51 at uscmail.u
scourts.gov>
	so spake  (Tom_Smith):

> I would like to set the PATH explicitly within sudo, not simply inherit or 
> deny what the user's already set.  Is there a way to do this?

The only way to do this (unless you are running the sudo 1.7 release
candidate) is to build sudo with the --with-secure-path[=PATH]
configure option.

 - todd



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