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Bug#426426: suEXEC and SetEnv



On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 15:12 +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: 
> On Monday 18 February 2008, Jack Bates wrote:
> > I guess it'd be too complicated to ask for mod_env and suEXEC to
> > cooperate, so if a user deliberately sets PERL5LIB in a .htaccess
> > file, suEXEC passes it to the Perl CGI?
> 
> This would require suexec to parse .htaccess files. This is not 
> something we want.

What about parsing a system config file (like suPHP
parses /etc/suphp/suphp.conf) listing "safe" environment variables?

> BTW, you can set PERL5LIB in the BEGIN block of your perl cgi scripts. 
> I don't see why this needs to be done in the .htaccess.

The BEGIN block doesn't work for me because I'm running an application
(Koha: http://koha.org/) with more than 100 scripts. Adding BEGIN blocks
to each script isn't viable...

Thanks for your suggestion, Jack

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