SoloCDM wrote: > > I want the development team to know that I'm very pleased with the > additions in security. It doesn't compromise my present security and > allows me to analyses the outcome from the implementations in my > email. > > 1) Nevertheless, security has compromised my standard configurations. > The global environment is missing some implementations; i.e.: $PATH > for starters. $PATH does not give the entire path string for any > shell. Most of the time I resort to making > "PATH=$PATH:[xxxx:xxxx:...]" manually at the prompt. I didn't change, > but added settings in /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile. Any files in the > $PATH don't execute in a script unless I provide a > "PATH=$PATH:[xxxx:xxxx:...]" in the script or place the exact path > connected in front of the intended file(s). All lines with a Mandrake > reference explaining that deleting this line requires deleting the > next line are intact. > > Note: When you reply to this message, please include > the mailing list and my address. > > ************************************************************************* > Signed, > SoloCDM > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. I suppose someone at Mandrake thinks I'm talking like I must have a head full of noodles, many cards shy of a full deck, too many times with my head in a gas oven unlit, too many times down the stairs head over heals. Maybe Mandrake probably thinks I'm convinced I can fly off a sky scraper without wings, because I'm angelic. All this from presumably sounding like a rambling, lost, confused, and absolutely cuckoo administrator; therefore, I must be ready for the loony-bin. I'm posting for the third time and someone thinks that they're so cleaver that they would change /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile environment files to make them more efficient without regards to facts showing these files not fouling up on my network with every installation I've implemented (Slakware, FreeBSD, UNIX, RedHat), except Mandrake . . . except Mandrake. Here's news I found in "man bash" that puts the facts where they belong and the real reason why $PATH does not execute commands in the intended $PATH and why $PATH acts strangely -- like it never had the $PATH initialized, even though one can plainly see the $PATH initialized for its environment to automatically seek out the desired executable files, but "echo $PATH" does not show the proof: When bash is started non-interactively, to run a shell script, for example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in the environment, expands its value if it appears there, and uses the expanded value as the name of a file to read and execute. Bash behaves as if the following command were executed if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi -----> *but* the value of the PATH variable is *not* used to search for the file name. $BASH_ENV in this instance is a misuse of its reason for existing. On a server with a global environment, $BASH_ENV reeks havoc -- throwing off the environments equilibrium by sweeping it off into the trash can. Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. ********************************************************************* Signed, SoloCDM
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