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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:17:09 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh-portable session.c
Message-ID:  <20020626221708.GA2178@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xzpznxh1z2q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <200206261417.g5QEHTjR074759@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020626152357.GA30110@nagual.pp.ru> <xzpznxh1z2q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 23:59:09 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
> > About PATH: it seems that you expect that setusercontext() will set it,
> > but setusercontext() can fail (its return code currently not checked, but
> > was checked in our old code). It leaves code flow with no PATH. Better to
> > set PATH before it & check its return code too. I am not sure about 
> > failure reaction, it can be fatal or just warning.
> 
> Yes, that's a good point.  The original code also assumes
> setusercontext(3) will succeed, and copies the parent's PATH to the
> child - but if setusercontext(3) failed, PATH might be anything (what
> if sshd was started manually from a shell?)  It should use a
> compiled-in fallback instead.

BTW, it seems we have a bug in our login(1), login.c - new code does 
setenv(PATH...) _after_ setusercontext(), it means path= command in 
standard /etc/login.conf will not works.

> I disagree.  The "term" variable is a fallback.

You are right. I withdraw my notice about TERM.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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