Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:05:55 +0000 From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> To: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, sigsys@gmail.com Subject: Re: svn commit: r357566 - head Message-ID: <874kw4ooqw.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <CACNAnaHu=T9N5S6DKdYN9FjRBb%2BASvEU7XPVC6x3jDZdkjtw1g@mail.gmail.com> (Kyle Evans's message of "Wed, 5 Feb 2020 11:26:46 -0600") References: <202002050443.0154hwPl091233@repo.freebsd.org> <1c19eca5b40aa7b70b0c18b7b52b540671cc50dd.camel@freebsd.org> <CACNAnaHu=T9N5S6DKdYN9FjRBb%2BASvEU7XPVC6x3jDZdkjtw1g@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> 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.
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