bug#31814: setuid programs are not first in PATH

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 2018-06-13 17:05, Joshua Branson a écrit :
> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > sourcing /etc/profile
> >
> > - prepends /run/setuid-programs to $PATH
> > - then sources $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile
> >
> > and sourcing $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile
> >
> > - prepends $HOME/.guix-profile/bin to $PATH
> > - prepends $HOME/.guix-profile/sbin to $PATH
> >
> > so in the end, $PATH looks like:
> >
> > ~/.config/guix/current/bin:~/.guix-profile/bin:~/.guix-profile/sbin:/run/setuid-programs:...
> >
> > and a command like 'ping' is found in ~/.guix-profile/bin, which makes
> > it unusable.
>
> I'm probably being really silly, but shouldn't it still work?  I mean
> ~/.guix-profile/bin is still in your path right?

The ping from ~/.guix-profile/bin is not setuid, contrary to the ping in
/run/setuid-programs. This is necessary for users to run ping.

> > Clément