Last updated on July 7, 2020 by Dan Nanni
sudo
, I get the following error.
sudo: XXXXX: command not foundFor some reason
/usr/local/bin
is not included in the PATH
environment variable. How can I fix this problem?When you run a program with sudo
, the program is executed with a new, minimum environment for security reasons. That is, not all the environment variables you define are inherited to sudo
commands. In case of PATH
environment variable, it is reset to a new "default" PATH
variable when sudo
is used. So if the new default PATH
variable does not include the folder where your program is, you will get "command not found" error with sudo
.
To customize the default PATH
variable for sudo
session, open /etc/sudoers
file with a text editor, and look for secure_path
. The value defined in secure_path
will be used as the default PATH
variable when you execute sudo
commands.
So add any necessary path (e.g., /usr/local/bin
) to secure_path
, and it will be passed to sudo
commands.
Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
This change will be effective immediately.
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