Your message dated Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:44:24 -0400 with message-id <caaajcmyqgxk8o_8o3cmmd4h+x+krgmhamjybd_rormsa82e...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: Bug#907145: gksu: Fails to change PATH according to /ect/sudoers has caused the Debian Bug report #907145, regarding gksu: Fails to change PATH according to /ect/sudoers to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gksu Version: 2.0.2-9+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I was upgrading the testing distribution after several months using aptitude. I upgraded about half the packages, but when I went to upgrade the other half I received errors from dpkg: Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I searched online and found the cause of the errors was, as the error states, the PATH being incorrect. I checked the PATH resulting when I chose "Root Terminal" from the menu, and this path did not include the sbin directories. root@ctillman:/home/chris# echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games I tried sudo from a regular user terminal window to check the path which would come up with it: chris@ctillman:~$ sudo bash -c 'echo $PATH' /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin And then, because gksu starts Root Terminal, I tried the equivalent with gksu: chris@ctillman:~$ gksu "bash -c 'echo $PATH'" gksu-run: gksu/bash -c 'echo |usr|local|bin:|usr|bin:|bin:|usr|local|games:|usr|games'/5044-0-ctillman_TIME11346051 gksu-run: 1f53968cb8fe3d752131e6a334975c84 /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games This showed gksu is not changing the path when calling xfce4-terminal. My /etc/sudoers contents: root@ctillman:~# cat /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of # directly modifying this file. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # Defaults env_reset Defaults mail_badpass Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" # Host alias specification # User alias specification # Cmnd alias specification # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL chris ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives: #includedir /etc/sudoers.d -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gksu depends on: ii gconf-service 3.2.6-4.1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.28.1-1 ii libc6 2.27-5 ii libcairo2 1.15.10-3 ii libfontconfig1 2.13.0-5 ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-2 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-4.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.12-2 ii libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-9+b2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.1-2 ii libgnome-keyring0 3.12.0-1+b2 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-1 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.42.4-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5 ii sudo 1.8.23-2 Versions of packages gksu recommends: ii gnome-keyring 3.28.2-1 gksu suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:24 AM Chris Tillman <[email protected]> wrote: > This showed gksu is not changing the path when calling xfce4-terminal. gksu was removed from Debian Testing in January and from Unstable 2 months after that. Therefore, gksu is no longer supported in Testing at all. For your other issues, maybe this explanation will help some: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460478/debian-su-and-su-path-differences/460769#460769 I am closing this bug because there is nothing we can do in gksu and it's not obvious to me whether there is another package to reassign this issue to. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
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