> Nope. Look at the -p option for set. BASH_ENV can be used to cause
> scripts to go haywire, but only with your own account.
Thanks, I missed that section of the manual. BASH_ENV is already
ignored when euid != ruid.
> Not necessarily. In some cases, it may be that a script relies on the
> i
Geoff Kuenning wrote:
Actually, the Posix standard is ambiguous. Although it (foolishly)
requires reporting to stdout rather than stderr, it does not mention
whether this behavior is required for both interactive and
non-interactive shells.
It's not, really. Unless otherwise specified (and t
Geoff Kuenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BASH_ENVis the cracker's delight. Any setuid program that
> invokes a Bash script, even indirectly, is completely
> open to attack.
Nope. Look at the -p option for set. BASH_ENV can be used to cause
scripts to g
Geoff Kuenning wrote:
I don't mean that the shell should ignore ALL environment variables;
that would break a ton of scripts. Even ignoring PATH would be a Very
Bad Thing, since we've long ago grown used to inheriting PATH.
Ignoring PATH would make life much, MUCH harder. I just finished writi
>> Description:
>> If CDPATH is set, whenever bash changes directories to a
>> non-absolute path it reports the new directory to stdout.
>> This is done even if bash is running in non-interactive mode,
>> such as in a script. That breaks scripts that do things like
>> this
> And in general, it is a bad idea to export CDPATH. Using it in
> interactive shells as a non-environment shell variable is fine, but
> exporting it affects non-interactive shells.
There are good reasons to export CDPATH. In particular, CDPATH is
inherited by interactive subshells. For precise
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According to Chet Ramey on 8/15/2008 3:14 PM:
>
> This is the behavior that Posix requires: when CDPATH is used, bash
> outputs the name of the new working directory to stdout. Commands
> and shell functions need to take this into account.
And in g
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Bash Version: 3.2
Patch Level: 25
Release Status: release
Description:
If CDPATH is set, whenever bash changes directories to a
non-absolute path it reports the new directory to stdout.
This is done even if bash is running in non-interactive mode
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i586
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2
-L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2/../readline-5.2
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYP
