Why is my Sudo not preserving my path?

Why is my Sudo not preserving my path?

This works fine if I want to run the program without sudo. However, if I try to run it with sudo it fails with a “command not found” error. Inspecting the PATH variable after using sudo reveals that its not including the same PATH I have as a normal user:

Where does Sudo treat leading arguments containing = characters as environment variables?

Where sudo treats leading arguments containing = characters as environment variable assignments by itself, would also work at running godi_console with your $PATH (as opposed to the secure_path) in its environment, but would not affect sudo ‘s search path for executable, so wouldn’t help sudo in finding that godi_console.

Which is the safe path for sudoers in Debian?

As a security measure on Debian, /etc/sudoers has the secure_path option set to a safe value.

Where do I find the PATH variable in Sudo?

The default contents of the env_keep and env_check lists are displayed when sudo is run by root with the -V option. If sudo was compiled with the SECURE_PATH option, its value will be used for the PATH environment variable.

Can you configure what commands can be run with sudo?

Yes, that’s right. You can configure what commands can be run with sudo and what cannot. This is useful in an environment where the dev team needs to run only a certain applications with sudo. Limiting their use of sudo to these applications only will help the system from unwarranted misuse of the sudo rights by the hands of the developers.

How to know if a user has Sudo rights?

Another way to find out if a user has sudo access is by checking if the said user is member of the sudo group. There are several ways to check the groups of a user in Linux. The easiest and my favorite way is to use the groups command like this: groups user_name. If you see the group ‘sudo’ in the output, the user is a member