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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-09-07 13:47:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-09-07 13:47:50 -0400 |
| commit | 5c6c0813ca8dff8c42ac32ed9702568228f8407b (patch) | |
| tree | 1c738d28466ffa81e5963937f76075486a127a1a /doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn | |
| parent | b3aadbf0bdb67fea1e9944dfa562f1ac020c16ea (diff) | |
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Remove PATH overriding code in ikiwiki script that was present to make perl taint checking happy, but taint checking is disabled.
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn index 63ac4bc31..5097acaef 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn @@ -7,3 +7,12 @@ This makes it a little hard to specify which specific binaries should be used, e $ENV{PATH}="$ENV{PATH}:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/local/bin"; ? The alternative is of course to patch ikiwiki as suggested in the bug, but I wanted to ask here first :) + +> You can use the ENV setting in your setup file to set any environment +> variables you like. Since ikiwiki.cgi is run by the web browser, that +> is the best way to ensure ikiwiki always runs with a given variable set. +> +> As a suid program, the ikiwiki wrappers have to sanitize the environment. +> The ikiwiki script's own sanitization of PATH was done to make perl taint +> checking happy, but as taint checking is disabled anyway, I have removed +> that. [[done]] --[[Joey]] |