From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev does not pass PATH to the children
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:48:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070518114850.GC29725@bongo.bofh.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158166a0705180430y17517e83g38e70bb9b82fddb0@mail.gmail.com>
On May 18, Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Basically subject says it all. Even if udevd is run with PATH set, it
> clears it (and everything else) out of environment before it starts
> children.
I consider this a feature.
> Clearing of the PATH doesn't make much sense from the security point
> of view too: udev's PATH is ser by admin, and we assume admin knows
> what he is doing.
No, but it helps consistency to know that the child processes of a
daemon will not be started with a random $PATH.
--
ciao,
Marco
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2007-05-18 11:30 udev does not pass PATH to the children Denis Vlasenko
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