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Sudo path variable error

Hi,
I'm having a strange issue with the PATH variable when running the command 'sudo su'. When executing this command the PATH variable changes. No problems there, but it changes to:

Code:

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin://sbin://bin:/usr/bin:/bin

Looking at this, there are two weird entries (//sbin and //bin) which should both start '/usr' instead. I'm not sure how I've managed to change this, or how a piece of software I'm using has done it (more likely it was me I expect), but could anyone suggest which file to look in to correct it? If it makes a difference the machine is running CentOS 5.

Cheers,
Andrew

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewbonney (Post 3984731)

Hi,
I'm having a strange issue with the PATH variable when running the command 'sudo su'. When executing this command the PATH variable changes. No problems there, but it changes to:

Code:

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin://sbin://bin:/usr/bin:/bin

Try out 'sudo su -' which reset all environment variables for su session.

MT.

Yes, that works, but it only seems to hold for the current session. Is there any way to make it more permanent?