path for user www
Pieter Donche
Pieter.Donche at ua.ac.be
Mon Jun 15 12:16:55 UTC 2009
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Pieter Donche writes:
>> How can one change the PATH for the user www ?
>> to include e.g. /usr/local/bin
>>
>> In /etc/passwd the entry now is:
>> www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
>
> Start by reading the section 5 man page for "passwd".
> Could you provide a little more detail about what's breaking
> and why you think this user's path is involved?
> Robert Huff
Some users on my system run scripts in their webpages. If they specify
commands (e.g.) 'python', it is not found, unless it is specified as
'/usr/local/bin/python', since the Apache runs in an environment which
has as PATH: (as can be seen from phpinfo() output)
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr:bin
only.
How can one make the PATH that Apache httpd deamon will use
be a different path?
and where exaclty does it get /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr:bin from
in the first place?
I could try specifying in /usr/local/sbin/apachectl 's Bourne shell script:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr:bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
but wouldn't this be set back to the original at an Apache update?
root has a better path:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin
how could I have httpd have the same path?
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