sudo Configuration

[Michael Johnson]

On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Meadows, Andrew wrote:

> I am attempting to configure sudo on a RH AS v3 r4 server. The version
> of sudo installed is 1.6.7p5. I would like to pass the $PATH  
> environment
> of root to the sudoer when they run a sudo command. If User A runs  
> sudo
> ifconfig, usera receives an error saying that ifconfig cannot be  
> found.
> I know that this is due to the fact that the /sbin path is not in the
> user A's profile. Is it possible to pass the .profile info from  
> root to
> user A so this command can run successfully?

An alternative is to use sudo -i instead of sudo -s to get all the  
root-y goodness.  I don't recall if that version has this function.   
I have it on my BSD servers, but not my RH servers.  It annoys me  
that it isn't there.  =-)

-Michael

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