On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> wrote: > Maybe someone would be interested in writing a lintian check for these > issues? Something a bit more advanced than this > > $ strings /sbin/dhclient | grep ^PATH > PATH=/home/zero79/source/git/isc-dhcp/debian/tmp/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/s > bin:/usr/bin > > would have caught the issue (advanced aspect being that reasonable > paths are ok'd).
Having a PATH set isn't a problem if it's set to something like /sbin:/bin or something else restrictive. The PATH isn't the problem here anyway it's the use of a directory under /home which would potentially be a problem if it's used for configuration files or data files. We could have a lintian warning for any occurance of the string "/home" in a packaged file and have error conditions for "/build" and the current value of $HOME for the account running lintian. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201210181320.44098.russ...@coker.com.au
