From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Wed Feb 5 19:06:06 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF7022AE52; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 19:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk) Received: from lungold.riddles.org.uk (lungold.riddles.org.uk [82.68.208.19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48CWHd5ZcHz40jZ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 19:06:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk) Received: from [192.168.127.1] (port=65054 helo=caithnard.riddles.org.uk) by lungold.riddles.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1izPzo-0008Jw-A7; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:05:56 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:31633 helo=caithnard.riddles.org.uk) by caithnard.riddles.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1izPzn-0002gN-KS; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:05:55 +0000 From: Andrew Gierth To: Kyle Evans Cc: Ian Lepore , src-committers , svn-src-all , svn-src-head , sigsys@gmail.com Subject: Re: svn commit: r357566 - head In-Reply-To: (Kyle Evans's message of "Wed, 5 Feb 2020 11:26:46 -0600") Message-ID: <874kw4ooqw.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> References: <202002050443.0154hwPl091233@repo.freebsd.org> <1c19eca5b40aa7b70b0c18b7b52b540671cc50dd.camel@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:05:55 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48CWHd5ZcHz40jZ X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk has no SPF policy when checking 82.68.208.19) smtp.mailfrom=andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.07 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.97)[-0.974,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.77)[-0.767,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[riddles.org.uk]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[6]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13037, ipnet:82.68.0.0/14, country:GB]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.23)[ipnet: 82.68.0.0/14(-0.39), asn: 13037(-0.69), country: GB(-0.08)] X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:06:06 -0000 >>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Evans writes: >> Unfortunately, the utility of this cool series of changes is mostly >> destroyed by the fact that PATH is the variable that could be most >> usefully set in login.conf for running daemons, specifically because >> it is set in 3 separate places now. Kyle> It is (and has been) set in each of them respectively, but the Kyle> submitter (along with sigsys@gmail.com) have some idea to accept Kyle> a hint in cron (and perhaps the others) from login.conf that it Kyle> should accept PATH as well unless it's been explicitly set in the Kyle> executing job. Kyle> I've CC'd these two so they can expand on that or discuss as Kyle> needed. I'd be quite happy to go along with a proposal to unconditionally set PATH from login.conf in cron and elsewhere. (The idea of having a flag for it is just to avoid changing existing PATH behavior without an explicit admin choice, to head off arguments about security. If that's not an issue, then no need for the flag.) -- Andrew.