sudo and PATH?

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:35:30 -0400
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> 
> > Matt Price wrote:
> >> 
> >> I have my regular user's path set to:
> >> $PATH:/usr/local/scripts/
> >> 
> >> but this of course doesn't extend over to sudo  Is there a way to change
> >> sudo's path, preferably permanently and for every user?
> > 
> >     Wouldn't you just add this path to _root_'s path?
> 
> Sure, but where is that set... You could do it in root's .bash* scripts, but
> better here:
> 
> derek at othello:~$ egrep "^ENV_\w*PATH" /etc/login.defs
> ENV_SUPATH \
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
> ENV_PATH        PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> -- 

Would it not be easier simply to move/link the scripts to /usr/local/bin ,
which is in the default path? Or have I missed something glaringly
obvious?

Peter