bug#31814: setuid programs are not first in PATH

[Clément Lassieur]

Joshua Branson <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

Yes, but ~/.guix-profile/bin/ping (which is the one being chosen)
doesn't have the setuid flag, so it doesn't work.