Setting the root password

Carlos Perelló Marín carlos.perello at canonical.com
Fri Sep 17 13:41:23 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 14:36 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:25:59PM +0000, John wrote:
> > Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > ><quote who="John">
> > >>Someone needs to fix the freaking PATH!!!
> > >
> > >Is there something wrong with it?
> > 
> > As I said, it lacks /sbiin & /usr/sbin which are quite important.
> 
> We fixed this a week or two ago in all the places we could think of. If
> there's one we missed, please let us know which.


I suppose he's talking about bash autocompletion feature, if you want to
execute root commands with sudo and you don't have /sbin and /usr/sbin
in your normal user's path, you don't cannot use the "TAB" key and you
need to type the whole command.

Cheers.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]

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