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/sbin/ missing from path

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mas94uk commented

After install (on LS220d), the path is
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

Several tools (mdadm, update-initramfs and its dependencies) are in /sbin/ and hence don't work.

1000001101000 commented

Always good to hear from you!

I believe this was a deliberate change in Buster (I also think it was standard in other distros like RHEL):
https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster

The typical solution is to add "-" to su commands
su -
sudo su -

You could also add it to your non-root user's profile if you want.

1000001101000 commented

is there anything you want me to look at for this issue?

mas94uk commented

Thanks for getting back. No, it looks like it is indeed a (slightly strange IMO) Debian thing, so I agree it's sensible to inherit it.

In case anyone else hits this in the future, my solution/workaround was to add the following to the end of ~/.bashrc:

# Because Debian path doesn't include these, for some reason
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin