At Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:43:52 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:28:28PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > At Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:22:28 +0100, > > Robert Millan wrote: > > > > _PATH_STDPATH is derived from BSD. I guess in past there have been > > > > occured by some reason, but it's obsolete and only there for > > > > historical purpose. > > > > > > then there's a problem, because GNU coreutils uses it. what is the correct > > > way now to obtain the default system path, for root and for user? > > > > GNU coreutils 4.5.9 uses _PATH_STDPATH no longer. > > there's _PATH_DEFPATH in src/su.c. please can you give any hint on this one?
Well, _PATH_DEFPATH is used in src/su.c, and the result of "su -l" (which makes the shell a login shell) becomes PATH=/usr/bin:/bin for non-privileged user, PATH="/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc" for root user. For root user, we don't declare such variable _PATH_DEFPATH_ROOT, so coreutils should be changed DEFAULT_ROOT_LOGIN_PATH setting as Debian's. For non-root users, yes, _PATH_DEFPATH is applied. ...Hmm, well, in this case DEFAULT_LOGIN_PATH is not followed by debian's definition. But, don't hurry to answer this issue: should we still have change glibc's paths.h? src/su.c in coreutils separates path value between root user and non-root users. But imagine that if a program does not separate the use of pathname, and uses _PATH_DEFPATH for both root and non-root users. You know it's not appropriate setting. To begin with, the whole idea of _PATH_DEFPATH is really matched in debian. I don't think so. Back to glibc's paths.h, IMHO, we should modify coreutils definition, not glibc. BTW, debian's /bin/su is login package's. So even if we change _PATH_DEFPATH, it does not affect our /bin/su. In addition, shadow package's /bin/su don't use variables in paths.h. At least modifying _PATH_STDPATH seems being not needed, so it can be closed without appling your patch. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]