On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 23:01:26 -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:39:22 -0500, Junqian Gordon Xu <xjq...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > setting in /etc/sudoers  
> > 
> > # User privilege specification
> > root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
> > sudoer  ALL=(ALL) ALL
> 
> Does /etc/sudoers have a line like:
> 
> Defaults      secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/
> sbin:/bin"
> 
> If not, then the problem is likely that /usr/sbin is not in the secure path.
> 
I think at the very least the requirement to add that line to sudoers
should be in NEWS.Debian (choosing to keep local changes is usually a
pretty safe answer to the conffile prompt).  Or better, secure_path
should have a sane default when it's not overridden in sudoers...

Cheers,
Julien



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