On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 14:19 +0000, Samuel Rakitničan wrote:
> > Am 16.11.2016 08:08, schrieb Samuel Rakitničan:
> > 
> > You can change the default behaviour in "/etc/sudoers" or (better)
> > by adding a file in "/etc/sudoers.d".
> > 
> > If you want to keep the users path, add:
> > 
> > Defaults env_keep += "PATH"
> > Defaults !secure_path
> > 
> > or to change the (default) secure path, just add
> > 
> > Defaults secure_path = /your/path/here:/as/usual
> 
> File in /etc/sudoers.d is neat, thanks. But I am hoping we can came
> up with a new default setting or is there a reason not to include
> anything else?
> 
> I was thinking about it some more, and I think this setting does more
> harm then good. It limits what users can do but it doesn't stop them
> to bypass it with a simple alias sudo="sudo PATH=$PATH". So in my
> opinion the original "If you don't trust the people running sudo to
> have a sane PATH environment variable you may want to use this." kind
> of defeats its purpose.

Note that there's been a ticket in Bugzilla requesting this for two
years:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166185


-- 
Mathieu
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