Package: login Version: 4.0.14-1 Severity: normal Dear maintainers,
from bash's source, shell.c:
] /* A non-interactive shell not named `sh' and not in posix mode reads and
] executes commands from $BASH_ENV. If `su' starts a shell with `-c cmd'
] and `-su' as the name of the shell, we want to read the startup files.
] No other non-interactive shells read any startup files. */
This was the case prior to 4.0.14: (tested on 4.0.13-7)
] s10:~# strace -eexecve,setuid32 -f su - backup echo \$SHELL
] execve("/bin/su", ["su", "-", "backup", "echo", "$SHELL"], [/* 18 vars */]) = 0
] setuid32(34) = 0
] execve("/bin/sh", ["-su", "-c", "echo $SHELL"], [/* 8 vars */]) = 0
] ^^^^^
] ...
Present behaviour:
] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jcn# strace -f -eexecve,setuid32 su - jcn echo \$SHELL
] execve("/bin/su", ["su", "-", "jcn", "echo", "$SHELL"], [/* 25 vars */]) = 0
] setuid32(1000) = 0
] Process 23014 attached (waiting for parent)
] Process 23014 resumed (parent 23013 ready)
] Process 23013 suspended
] [pid 23014] execve("/bin/bash", ["/bin/bash", "-c", "echo $SHELL"], [/* 8
vars */]) = 0
] ^^^^^^^^^^^
] ...
This results in, among other things, $PATH being set to the wrong directory
list.
Regards,
Jan
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Jan C. Nordholz
<jckn At gmx net>
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