Okay, I understand now. Thanks for your help.
I have a habit of quoting things. Looks like it bit me.
~/bin does get expanded for me in the shell, so it's never been a
problem for me before. Since rkhunter takes $PATH in as-is, it doesn't
know what to do with ~.
FYI, this was never a problem until something in rkhunter changed fairly
recently.
Thanks. Go ahead and close out.
Julien Valroff wrote:
Le mardi 31 janv. 2012 à 09:02:59 (+0100 CET), Jesse Molina a écrit :
Sorry for slow reply.
-->echo $PATH
~/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
-->egrep PATH= .bash*
.bash_profile:PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:${PATH}"
.bash_profile: PATH="~/bin:${PATH}"
OK, I have finally managed to get this behaviour, "~/bin" is not expanded...
[...]
The question as to why BINDIR in the config file is being ignored remains.
Read around line 2122 of rkhunter:
# The BINPATHS list is prepended with the root PATH. However,
# any specified BINDIR directories beginning with a '+' will
# be prepended before the root PATH.
#
# Once that has been done, we check that each directory begins
# with a '/'. We remove any non-existent directories, but we do
# not flag this as an error. We also remove any duplicate directories.
Hence the root PATH is then always considered, contrary to what I had
originally thought. The behaviour you describe is IMHO normal, the cause is
the fact you don't allow ~/bin to be expanded to /home/user/bin.
Simply change your .bash_profile to state PATH=~/bin:${PATH} and it should
work as expected.
Cheers,
Julien
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