Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:16:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: path for user www Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906151404040.38025@macos.cmi.ua.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <18998.13606.129658.46433@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906151131390.34405@macos.cmi.ua.ac.be> <18998.13606.129658.46433@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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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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