Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 25 August 2017 at 20:34, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:

> >  + localuser:kevinc being removed from access control list
> 
> I dug into this a bit more.  What is your SHELL?  Specifically, what
> is the "SHELL" environment variable set to?
> 
> Boy, I just took a look at whatnowsbr.c, specifically how "cd", "pwd",
> and "ls" work.  Talk about knowing how the sausage is being made ...
> 
> Anyway, those commands invoke the user's shell instead of using /bin/sh,
> so if you use another shell the xhost command might get invoked that
> way.  Really, it's doing things like:
> 
>       $SHELL -c "cd&&pwd"
> 
> If that still prints out the xhost line if you do that from the command
> line, then that's the problem.


address@hidden #337] printenv SHELL
/bin/tcsh
address@hidden #338] $SHELL -c "cd&&pwd"
localuser:kevinc being removed from access control list
/home/kevinc
address@hidden #339] 

I think you nailed the debugging.


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Kevin