I am unable to run any command on debian, I am getting the above error.
Though when I use sudo
same commands works.
Can someone please explain this behavior?
It is likely that the root
user on your system is set up with a different default $PATH
compared to that of non-root
users.
The default paths are specified in /etc/profile
, /etc/login.defs
, /etc/login.conf
or some other file either read by the shell, or by the login
command. It differs from system to system.
The ufw
command might, for example, live in /usr/sbin/
. This directory usually contains tools that only root
have any use for (many of them might even require root
privileges, such as ufw
, which is a firewall configuration tool).
There is no real need to have that directory in the $PATH
of ordinary users.
ufw
as a non-root
user?ufw
is just an example, I am getting that error for all commandssudo
privilege.