[rt.cpan.org #95624] cpan as root cannot install Inline without force

[Sisyphus via RT]

Tue Jun 24 05:08:35 2014: Request 95624 was acted upon.
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Fixed as of 0.55_01

[rt.cpan.org #95624] cpan as root cannot install Inline without force

[Ed J via RT]

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I'd be very interested to know whether the change proposed in 
https://github.com/mohawk2/inline-pm/commit/f9242a2e92244d99a2ce051c9ae523913eb47fc4
 fixes this issue.

Re: [rt.cpan.org #95624] cpan as root cannot install Inline without force

[sisyphus1]

-Original Message- 
From: Reini Urban



It makes sense that this happens, because of course /usr/bin/ is writable
by root.


Thanks.
We need to skip those TAINT checks if run as root or Windows 
Administrator.


You mean that we have 08taint.t check to see whether it's being run as 
root/administrator ... and if it is then it skips all tests ?

That sounds ok to me (assuming it's possible to reliably detect the case).

Is it *guaranteed* that Inline won't work under -T when run as root/admin ?
Or is it merely *possible* that Inline won't work under -T when run as 
root/admin ?
(The answer has a bearing on the SKIP message that we would present, and 
upon the modification we would make to the TAINT documentation that we 
provide.)


Patch welcome.

Does anyone actually use -T and Inline ?
If so, do they use it safely ?

Cheers,
Rob

[rt.cpan.org #95624] cpan as root cannot install Inline without force

[jeff.ja...@gmail.com via RT]

Tue May 13 17:21:02 2014: Request 95624 was acted upon.
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on CentOS6.5, perl 5.10.1, I cannot install Inline using cpan Inline 
/dev/null.

I can install it with cpan -f Inline  /dev/null, but that is less than
optimal.

The problem seems to be the same one as reported here:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65703

The taint test fails because the directory containing 'make' is removed
from $ENV{PATH}.

It makes sense that this happens, because of course /usr/bin/ is writable
by root.  But then does that mean it is just unsupported to install through
cpan as root on any linux system? If that is the case, I think I would have
found more documentation or complaints about that.

Or is the test script supposed to give away rights, and that is not working
for me for some reason?



Thanks,

Jeff

Re: [rt.cpan.org #95624] cpan as root cannot install Inline without force

[Reini Urban]

On 05/13/2014 04:21 PM, jeff.ja...@gmail.com via RT wrote:

Tue May 13 17:21:02 2014: Request 95624 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by jeff.ja...@gmail.com
Queue: Inline
  Subject: cpan as root cannot install Inline without force
Broken in: (no value)
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Owner: Nobody
   Requestors: jeff.ja...@gmail.com
   Status: new
  Ticket URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=95624 


on CentOS6.5, perl 5.10.1, I cannot install Inline using cpan Inline 
/dev/null.

I can install it with cpan -f Inline  /dev/null, but that is less than
optimal.

The problem seems to be the same one as reported here:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65703

The taint test fails because the directory containing 'make' is removed
from $ENV{PATH}.

It makes sense that this happens, because of course /usr/bin/ is writable
by root.  But then does that mean it is just unsupported to install through
cpan as root on any linux system? If that is the case, I think I would have
found more documentation or complaints about that.


Thanks.
We need to skip those TAINT checks if run as root or Windows Administrator.


Or is the test script supposed to give away rights, and that is not working
for me for some reason?