On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 06:04:07PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 10:04:01AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > > > I am getting nowhere fast. > > > > OK, let's start at the beginning. > > > > You have raku installed in some directory that is not in a regular PATH. > > > > You won't tell us what this directory is, so let's pretend it's > > /opt/raku/bin/raku. > > [...] > > > The voices in your head will tell you that you absolutely must use > > sudo to perform your privilege elevation. > > > > Therefore the third solution for you: configure sudo so that it does > > what you want. > > > > Next, of course, the voices in your head will tell you that configuring > > sudo is not permissible. You have to do this in... gods, I don't know... > > [...] > > There is also `sudo -E` to preserve environment and > `sudo --preserve-env=PATH` that could be used to probably achieve the > behaviour of interest.
Exactly. The man page tells us (hint, hint ;-) -E doesn't preserve PATH on my system, but --preserve-env=PATH does. This surely has to do with the "security policy" mentioned in the man page (passing PATH to a root shell is a wonderful opportunity for a root privilege escalation, after all, so it makes sense to not establish it as a default). I'm sure the OP is now able to locate that "security policy" config and change it to taste. "--preserve-env=PATH" is quite a mouthful and one doesn't want to type it all the time :-) Cheers -- t
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