From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 16:51:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: people with "." early in their path can have problems running sudo from the build... 
X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_6_0~31
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1cf9d84fb0c33d9226b355a3a87707c49638f906;p=sudo

people with "." early in their path can have problems running sudo from the build dir ;-)
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diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING b/TROUBLESHOOTING
index 76c3979ae..18107c3b5 100644
--- a/TROUBLESHOOTING
+++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ Q) Sudo compiles but when I run it I get "Sorry, sudo must be setuid root."
 A) Sudo must be setuid root to do its work.  You need to do something like
    `chmod 4111 /usr/local/bin/sudo'.  Also, the filesystem sudo resides
    on must *not* be mounted with the nosuid mount option or sudo will
-   not be able to work.
+   not be able to work.  Another possibility is you may have '.' in
+   your $PATH before the directory containing sudo.  If you are going
+   to have '.' in your path you should make sure it is at the end.
 
 Q) Sudo is setup to log via syslog(3) but I'm not getting any log
    messages.