michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If there is a fix for this, assuming its a bug, I would appreciate
> greatly knowing outside of the email list as I dont frequent it very
> often. If its something on my side and you have spotted it I would
> also like to know.
Thanks for persevering.
This is not due to a bug in the tools themselves.
Rather it is due to a weakness in the test harness
that's exposed only when running `make check' as root
and when some other version of a tool like chmod or rm
is first in your PATH.
This patch should fix it:
2004-06-21 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/priv-check: When running as root, be sure to propagate
PATH through to the process we exec as non-root.
Reported by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: tests/priv-check
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/tests/priv-check,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -p -u -r1.7 -r1.8
--- tests/priv-check 27 Jul 2003 20:04:48 -0000 1.7
+++ tests/priv-check 21 Jun 2004 17:06:58 -0000 1.8
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ case $PRIV_CHECK_ARG:$my_uid in
echo "$0: skipping this test" 1>&2
(exit 77); exit
}
- exec setuidgid $NON_ROOT_USERNAME $0
+ exec setuidgid $NON_ROOT_USERNAME env PATH=$PATH $0
;;
require-non-root:*) ;;
esac
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