Description of problem: I have a few scripts that have to be executed as root, which I do via "sudo scriptname". The scripts are in my PATH, but to keep from forgetting to use sudo, I have them root-owned and permissioned 0744 (rwxr--r--). This arrangement has worked fine for many years, but as of latest Fedora 9 it fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sudo-1.6.9p13-7.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. create shell script permissioned as described 2. as non-root user, sudo scriptname Actual results: sudo: scriptname: command not found Expected results: script should run Additional info: I observe that "which scriptname" fails to find the script also, which is probably reasonable but I do not remember whether it used to work like that. Conceivably this is really a bash issue not a sudo issue? But bash hasn't changed recently, and this broke very recently (not more than a couple weeks ago). Anyway, for completeness bash is bash-3.2-22.fc9.x86_64
After further experimentation, I think my initial description may be wrong: it seems what is really happening is that PATH is being reset to a default value, even though sudo -V claims PATH will be preserved as it has been in the past.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 471603 ***