Friends,
In Red Hat, suppose if root user wishes to give a privilege to run the fdisk command to a user named sam. And he makes appropriate configuration changes in /etc/sudoers file.
Now when sam wishes to run the fdisk command, then he has to issue:

But in ubuntu, after the same configuration being done, what sam needs to do is:
That means, in ubuntu the user need not type the full path of the command.
I wish to know how can I make red hat system work like ubuntu as far as the sudo usage is concerned.
Thanks...

Has nothing to do with SUDO. You need to modify the PATH environment variable, to include whatever directories you want. So modify the root .bashrc/.profile file accordingly.

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Thanks TBone for the quick reply.
Now I got it.

In Ubuntu, any user will have /sbin, /usr/local/sbin, etc...directories in his path by default even if he is not a sudo user. So, once he is given a sudo privilege for a set of commands or a particular command, he only has to type sudo followed by the command(no need for the full path)
But in Red Hat, by default, the path for running those commands are not set for a normal user by default. So, the sudo user needs to type in the full path. To make this work, the appropriate paths need to be added in his .bashrc file.

Thanks.

The problem with that is he can run any cmd in that new dir (eg /sbin), which is not necessarily what you want. If you want specific cmds only, use sudo in the same way, it's the same on all Linux.