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bug#31814: setuid programs are not first in PATH
From: |
Joshua Branson |
Subject: |
bug#31814: setuid programs are not first in PATH |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:01:07 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> writes:
> Joshua Branson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> 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.
Oh. I didn't realize that the ping command was a setuid program. cool.