Ticket History #427: PATH setenv() policy conflicts with /etc/environment.

From donn@u.washington.edu Mon May 19 20:26:34 1997
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Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 17:26:32 -0700
From: donn@u.washington.edu
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To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
Subject: appl/bsd/login.c: PATH setenv policy.
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University Computing Services
University of Washington
AIX 4.2
System: AIX melville 2 4 000010504900


login.krb5 reads /etc/environment with no-override setenv(),
and then forces PATH to a hard-coded value. This prevents
use of /etc/environment to initialize PATH.

Context diff appended.
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*** src/appl/bsd/login.c.dist Wed Apr 2 23:35:11 1997
--- src/appl/bsd/login.c Mon May 19 17:01:02 1997
***************
*** 1117,1124 ****
if (p)
*p = 0;
*eq++ = 0;
! /* Don't override, in case -p was used. */
! setenv (tbuf, eq, 0);
}
fclose(fp);
}
--- 1117,1123 ----
if (p)
*p = 0;
*eq++ = 0;
! setenv (tbuf, eq, 1);
}
fclose(fp);
}
***************
*** 1842,1848 ****
setenv("KRB5CCNAME", ccname, 1);

setenv("HOME", pwd->pw_dir, 1);
! setenv("PATH", LPATH, 1);
setenv("USER", pwd->pw_name, 1);
setenv("SHELL", pwd->pw_shell, 1);

--- 1841,1847 ----
setenv("KRB5CCNAME", ccname, 1);

setenv("HOME", pwd->pw_dir, 1);
! setenv("PATH", LPATH, 0);
setenv("USER", pwd->pw_name, 1);
setenv("SHELL", pwd->pw_shell, 1);