From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: From: Sascha Hauer Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:13:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1393424001-26060-5-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <1393424001-26060-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> References: <1393424001-26060-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Subject: [ptxdist] [PATCH 5/7] add ptxsudo alias to ptxdist bash Reply-To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de List-Id: PTXdist Development Mailing List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de Errors-To: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de Cc: mol@pengutronix.de, mkl@pengutronix.de When using 'ptxdist bash' some tools installed by ptxdist may have to be used as root. some sudo installations do not pass through the PATH environment variable so that 'sudo ' results in command not found error messages. This patch adds a ptxsudo alias that can be used in such situations. The name has been chosen rather than regular 'sudo' since the said feature is a security feature protecting against path spoofing which we do not want to disable silently. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer --- bin/ptxdist | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/bin/ptxdist b/bin/ptxdist index 0a86ad9..13bf9f7 100755 --- a/bin/ptxdist +++ b/bin/ptxdist @@ -1712,6 +1712,7 @@ parse_second() . ~/.bashrc PS1="[ptx] \${PS1}" PATH="${PATH}" +alias ptxsudo='sudo env PATH=$PATH' EOF "${BASH}" --init-file "${bashrc}" else -- 1.8.5.3 -- ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de