Re: ENV_SUPATH and MAIL_DIR in /etc/login.defs
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > > i think should be:
> > > ENV_SUPATH PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
> >
> > That would give /usr/local precedence. This is something we only want done
> > by the express wishes of the local administrator (i.e. he must go there and
> > change it himself).
>
> Why is this different for the superuser? The only person that can
> install to /usr/local to begin with is the local administrator.
Not always, it depends on local admin politics.
> This doesn't even seem to be used by many shells:
>
> 10:55pm glenn@zewt.pts/3 [~] grep PATH /etc/profile
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
>
> The definition in login.defs seems less useful when shells override
> it with their own paths by default.
Indeed. We will have to shalk up the ENV_SUPATH defaults to healthy
paranoia, then...
Now, the little fact that /etc/profile disagrees with /etc/login.defs is a
bug. And since base-files has precedence, it appears that the original
poster of this thread was right, ENV_SUPATH is indeed buggy.
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