sudo and PATH?

Brian Fahrlander brian at fahrlander.net
Fri Jan 5 19:06:10 UTC 2007


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Matt Price wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have a bunch of scripts in /usr/local/scripts/ , some of which need
> sudo access.  It's frustrating to always have to type out the whole file
> path:
> 
> sudo /usr/local/scripts/worknetworksetup.sh
> instead of
> sudo worknetworksetup.sh
> 
> I have my regular user's path set to:
> $PATH:/usr/local/scripts/
> 
> but this of course doesn't extend over to sudo  Is there a way to change
> sudo's path, preferably permanently and for every user?

    Wouldn't you just add this path to _root_'s path?

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