sudo does not recognize bash aliases

[yourpalal]

Binary package hint: sudo

For example:
I have the following user defined alias, as reported by 'alias':"alias IDLE='/usr/bin/idle-python2.5'"
However, upon enter the following command "sudo IDLE": I am given the following error:
    sudo: IDLE: command not found

I am running 8.04 with sudo at version 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.3

[yourpalal (alexsleeps)]

A workaround for anyone else experiencing this problem is to spawn a root terminal for example 'sudo xterm' and then run your aliases from there.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Realistically this isn't going to change anytime soon. It would either require bash to know details and hacks about sudo, or sudo to know details and hacks about bash, neither is really desirable.

[Tyler Rick (tyler.rick)]

Another workaround (described at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217188) is to create an alias for sudo like this:

alias sudo='A=`alias` sudo '

[Juhos Csaba-Zsolt (csaba-juhos)]

Actually the
A=`alias`
part is redundant. A simple
alias sudo='alias '
suffices.

From bash.info 6.6 Aliases: "If the last character of the alias value
is a space or tab character, then the next command word following the
alias is also checked for alias expansion."

Csabi