On 05/19/13 20:56, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sun, 19 May 2013 13:34:49 -0500
sindrome <[email protected]> wrote:

can't authenticate to my samba server.  There has to be a root of
this problem to make them both work.  Is there some other place
portupgrade is having /tmp amended on without it being in my $PATH?

I went back and had a closer look at your error message. What I hadn't
done (and neither had you, prior to that) was read and fully digest the
error message.

portupgrade is calling its 'system()' function to run a command. The
Ruby runtime does a sanity check to make sure that the directories in
the path are secure...and /tmp isn't. I suspect that portupgrade puts
temporary scripts into /tmp, then executes them; this implies that it's
probably chdir'ing to /tmp, then haveing '.' in thge path, or even just
adding /tmp to the path, although I don't think so.

Anyway, what's insecure is that you don't have the sticky bit set. If
you use:

   chmod 1777 /tmp

it ought to all work.

Unfortunately it doesn't - for me at least! Here's the error I get from portupgrade on (all of) my FreeBSD boxes:

[simon@vmserver02 ~]$ sudo portupgrade -pP sysutils/webmin
--->  Session started at: Sun, 19 May 2013 21:11:25 +0200
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools/pkgtools.rb:288: warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp/ in PATH, mode 041777

AFAIR this started around the time of the last Ruby update over a year ago, the change and subsequent rollback to making the default version of Ruby 1.9. I'm using 1.8.7 which I believe is still the FBSD default version. Is anyone seeing this issue using Ruby 1.9?

I definitely do not have /tmp in my $PATH.

Cheers

Simon.

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