Bug 156404 – /env/profile should also include previous PATH for root

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gregory Bleiker 2006-11-27 05:36:37 UTC]

The following is out of /env/profile

if [ "$EUID" = "0" ] || [ "$USER" = "root" ] ; then
        PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:${ROOTPATH}"
else
        PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:${PATH}"
fi

I think that in the "root" case, any previous PATH should be included as well, so the code would look like:

if [ "$EUID" = "0" ] || [ "$USER" = "root" ] ; then
        PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:${ROOTPATH}:${PATH}"
else
        PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:${PATH}"
fi

If this is not done, then any newly set PATH entries in /etc/env.d/* will not affect root. Maybe this is by design?

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-11-27 07:05:41 UTC]

Yes, this is by design for security reasons...