path for user www

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net
Mon Jun 15 17:56:45 UTC 2009


On Monday 15 June 2009 06:29:13 Paul Schmehl wrote:

> Why would you want to?  You'd open yourself up to all sorts of potential
> compromise paths.  There's a reason why root's path is different from
> normal users.

Without forcing a PATH for apache, you open yourself up to exactly the things 
you're warning for, when you restart apache in multi-user. When using sudo 
apache would actually have the PATH of your normal user.
Also, PATH for root is _not_ noticably different from normal users in a 
vanilla install. Only the path during rc(8) stage is sanitized, which is why 
you see a different path after reboot.

Ideally, the apache port would install a path.env.default in the envvars.d 
directory and mention it's usage in pkg-message.
-- 
Mel


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