visudo missing from PATH during cron runs about sudo

[gdurand]

You can fix this by setting this attribute:
default['chef_client']['cron']['environment_variables'] = 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
Or by putting this at the start of your recipe:
ENV['PATH'] = "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:#{ENV['PATH']}"

[szymonpk]

@gdurand Thanks, but shouldn't /usr/sbin/ be part of enviroment_variables out of the box? At least on ubuntu 16.04?

[idispatch75]

Perhaps, but that probably could interfer with other settings. But I think it should at least be documented. And perhaps even more in the sudo cookbook since it uses a relative path for visudo.
And this seems related to https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/chef-client/issues/473

[rhass]

@szymonpk The linked PR will allow you to add visudo_path '/some/path' to your sudo resource calls. However, in the context of cron this is usually handled by adding PATH=/insert/path:/here to the beginning of a crontab entry or preceding the command to be executed in cron.