On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:41:16 -0500 Andy Moore <amoore at loneoakmn.com> wrote: > Of all the distros I've tried (and that's quite a few), Redhat is the > only that exhibits this behavior. I always just considered it an > extra little (annoying)security "feature". All this does is keep your > average user from accidentally screwing something up by sudo-ing a > command they have no clue how to use. I still just found it annoying. > Even the big "Unix" boys (HP, Solaris, AIX, Tru64) require full pathing to some degree whether it be a sudo or plain su. Only if you did a "su -" did you get the variables loaded of the id. Sudo never (unless you specificly set your own pathing). I like it. It keeps people from doing things they shouldn't. Causes problems at times though, because many people forget about the pathing or had no idea about the "-" on the su. For the record, I use the "-" every time I su. I want to see what that id is loading, and supposed to act like. Particularly when users are having problems.... Besides, I'm lazy and don't like to fully qualify a path if I don't have to. ;) -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list