help with sudo and path

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Tue Aug 12 18:17:07 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 13:37 -0400, SwampYankee wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to run nethack wizard mode but when I do so using sudo the 
> path can not be found. So, if I type nethack, no problem However, I 
> enter sudo -s, provide the password and type 'nethack' I get this:
> 
> Command 'nethack' is available in '/usr/games/nethack'
> The command could not be located because '/usr/games' is not included in 
> the PATH environment variable.
> 
> What can I do to run this as sudo?

There is discussion of this problem here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/50797

and they have some recommendations for getting around the secure path
issue.
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