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edited Apr 13, 2017 at 12:36

By Default sudo resets environment variables for security reasons, check for following line in /etc/sudoers

Defaults    env_reset

PATH variable is reset to "secure_path" value .

e.g. Defaults    secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

You can try

sudo env "PATH=$PATH" [command] to preserve path of sudo -E didn't work.

A better explanation can be found here here

By Default sudo resets environment variables for security reasons, check for following line in /etc/sudoers

Defaults    env_reset

PATH variable is reset to "secure_path" value .

e.g. Defaults    secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

You can try

sudo env "PATH=$PATH" [command] to preserve path of sudo -E didn't work.

A better explanation can be found here

By Default sudo resets environment variables for security reasons, check for following line in /etc/sudoers

Defaults    env_reset

PATH variable is reset to "secure_path" value .

e.g. Defaults    secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

You can try

sudo env "PATH=$PATH" [command] to preserve path of sudo -E didn't work.

A better explanation can be found here

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answered Oct 22, 2016 at 18:49

By Default sudo resets environment variables for security reasons, check for following line in /etc/sudoers

Defaults    env_reset

PATH variable is reset to "secure_path" value .

e.g. Defaults    secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

You can try

sudo env "PATH=$PATH" [command] to preserve path of sudo -E didn't work.

A better explanation can be found here