Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:13:49 +0100 From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Expanding _PATH_DEFPATH Message-ID: <20151224231349.GA5821@stack.nl>
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In <paths.h> there is a #define _PATH_DEFPATH which is set to /usr/bin:/bin. This does not include /sbin, /usr/sbin and ports (/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin) directories and is therefore often insufficient. This is rarely a problem because _PATH_DEFPATH is overridden by /etc/login.conf, ~/.login_conf and/or shell startup files. _PATH_DEFPATH is still used as a default by execlp(), execvp(), posix_spawnp() and sh if PATH is not set, and by cron. Especially the latter is a common trap (most recently in PR 204813). We can fix it for 99% by changing _PATH_DEFPATH to /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin This is the path in the default class in the default /etc/login.conf, excluding ~/bin which would not be expanded properly in a string constant. For consistency, the _PATH_DEFPATH for RESCUE below and in 3 man pages (exec.3, posix_spawn.3, crontab.5) need to be adjusted as well. -- Jilles Tjoelker
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