reassign 257730 xserver-common retitle 257730 xserver-common: X server wrapper scrubs environment of LD_LIBRARY_PATH tag 257730 + moreinfo thanks On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 02:56:28PM +0200, Jan Gregor wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 > Severity: normal > > XFree86 unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, so in X is blank. Well, the X server wrapper is setuid root. I hope you can appreciate the grave security implications of letting users redefine the dynamic loader's search path in the context of a process running with root privileges. > I also tried to start X with xinit command but with same result. After > return from X variable is set right. > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is needed by java to point to directory /usr/lib/jni used > for non-java libraries such as libJavaEditline.so. Why don't you set up your user session to set the variable how you like? Please see the Xsession(5x) and xinit(1x) manual pages. -- G. Branden Robinson | If atheism is a religion, then Debian GNU/Linux | health is a disease. branden@debian.org | -- Clark Adams http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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