Bug 958055

Summary:	which command does not find cd command
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Forgotten User SpTvqxsYZX <forgotten_SpTvqxsYZX>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	bwiedemann
Version:	Leap 42.1
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Description Forgotten User SpTvqxsYZX 2015-12-05 01:25:16 UTC

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When using sudo cd command, sudo says that cd cannot be found, then when using "which cd" command, it says that it is also unable to find cd. 

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
cd not found

Expected Results:  
sudo should be able to find built in commands

Comment 1 Bernhard Wiedemann 2015-12-05 12:43:27 UTC

There is no "cd" binary
because changing directory only affects the running process
Thus "sudo cd" does not make sense.

Instead you probably want to do something like
sudo bash -c "cd /root ; ls"
or
su - root -c "cd /root ; ls"