On 2/5/20 2:05 PM, Andrew Gierth wrote:
"Kyle" == Kyle Evans <kev...@freebsd.org> writes:
>> Unfortunately, the utility of this cool series of changes is mostly
>> destroyed by the fact that PATH is the variable that could be most
>> usefully set in login.conf for running daemons, specifically because
>> it is set in 3 separate places now.
Kyle> It is (and has been) set in each of them respectively, but the
Kyle> submitter (along with sig...@gmail.com) have some idea to accept
Kyle> a hint in cron (and perhaps the others) from login.conf that it
Kyle> should accept PATH as well unless it's been explicitly set in the
Kyle> executing job.
Kyle> I've CC'd these two so they can expand on that or discuss as
Kyle> needed.
I'd be quite happy to go along with a proposal to unconditionally set
PATH from login.conf in cron and elsewhere.
(The idea of having a flag for it is just to avoid changing existing PATH
behavior without an explicit admin choice, to head off arguments about
security. If that's not an issue, then no need for the flag.)
If there are objections to using the "daemon" class's PATH for
rc/service, there could be a new "system" class added that inherits from
"daemon" configured with the traditional PATH that they override with
(i.e. without /usr/local paths). That would require no other changes to
rc/service after modifying them to not always override PATH. And leave
only the cron issue.
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