Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (818 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

Moining,

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 03:58:46PM +0200, David Haller wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Lars Müller wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:36:20AM +0200, David Haller wrote:
> > [ 8< ]
> > > I'm not 100% sure if that's the 11.4 default, as this is an upgrade
> > > from 11.1 via 11.2 and that file might have been kept.
> >
> > grep CWD_IN_ /var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.suseconfig
> > CWD_IN_ROOT_PATH="no"
> > CWD_IN_USER_PATH="yes"
> >
> > For openSUSE 11.4 and Factory.
>
> Thank you!
>
> So the default hasn't changed yet. I think it should. NOW! Let's have
> a default of (implicitly)
>
>     CWD_IN_USER_PATH="no"
>
> with 12.2 at latest. Oh, what I don't remember[1] is at what position
> "." got added to PATH if that variable was set to "yes".

Are you getting more and more lazy?  Must be the age. ;)

From /etc/profile.d/profile.sh

        CWD_IN_USER_PATH=*)
            test "$val" = "yes" || continue
            test $UID -ge 100 && PATH=$PATH:.

> If last, just
> get rid of it, if first, change it to "last" with 12.1. That stupidity
> has stuck around far far too long already. Those who want to shoot
> themselves can still use it by setting CWD_IN_USER_PATH to "yes" ;)

I suggest to keep it simple stupid and to change the default of
CWD_IN_USER_PATH to no

> Oh, and BTW: I plead for removing the variable for root altogether.
> root should _never ever_ have "." in his PATH.

@Rudi: As you added CWD_IN_USER_PATH only ten years back you might still
remember why these two settings are needed. ;)

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
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