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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org>
Subject: bug#31814: setuid programs are not first in PATH
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:06:57 +0200
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Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> writes:

> Cl=C3=A9ment 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?

Yes, but ~/.guix-profile/bin/ping (which is the one being chosen)
doesn't have the setuid flag, so it doesn't work.