From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: 31814@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31814: setuid programs are not first in PATH
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:06:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <235798309c2cace8763de6f187829152@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wov2afr2.fsf@fastmail.com>
Le 2018-06-13 17:05, Joshua Branson a écrit :
> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> sourcing /etc/profile
>>
>> - prepends /run/setuid-programs to $PATH
>> - then sources $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile
>>
>> and sourcing $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile
>>
>> - prepends $HOME/.guix-profile/bin to $PATH
>> - prepends $HOME/.guix-profile/sbin to $PATH
>>
>> so in the end, $PATH looks like:
>>
>> ~/.config/guix/current/bin:~/.guix-profile/bin:~/.guix-profile/sbin:/run/setuid-programs:...
>>
>> and a command like 'ping' is found in ~/.guix-profile/bin, which makes
>> it unusable.
>
> I'm probably being really silly, but shouldn't it still work? I mean
> ~/.guix-profile/bin is still in your path right?
The ping from ~/.guix-profile/bin is not setuid, contrary to the ping in
/run/setuid-programs. This is necessary for users to run ping.
>
>>
>> Clément
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-13 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-13 14:32 bug#31814: setuid programs are not first in PATH Clément Lassieur
2018-06-13 15:05 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-13 15:06 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2018-06-13 15:06 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-14 14:01 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-16 9:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-16 22:35 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-17 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-18 6:16 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-19 9:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-19 10:26 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-18 13:40 ` Marius Bakke
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