From: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawngqGADV9fidHK5qabIzKN0bx1ZIfvaTqs Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:50:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add comment about this issue X-Git-Tag: 3.20100915~20 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=ikiwiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6127eb9fa53d375f6ad3d079c75a279c268e9cd Add comment about this issue --- diff --git a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn index 992ea0a2a..1cf99d826 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn @@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ This makes it a little hard to specify which specific binaries should be used, e > checking happy, but as taint checking is disabled anyway, I have removed > that. [[done]] --[[Joey]] -Question: Do ikiwiki.cgi and the RCS post-commit script sanitize the $PATH separately from bin/ikiwiki? If not, then bin/ikiwiki is probably right to sanitize the $PATH; otherwise you've created a security hole with access to the account that ikiwiki is SUID to. It'd be nice if /opt/local/bin were earlier in the $PATH, but that can be changed (as noted) in the setup file. [[Glenn|geychaner@mac.com]] +Question: Do ikiwiki.cgi and the RCS post-commit script sanitize the $PATH separately from bin/ikiwiki? If not, then bin/ikiwiki is probably right to sanitize the $PATH; otherwise you've created a security hole with access to the account that ikiwiki is SUID to. It'd be nice if /opt/local/bin were earlier in the $PATH, but that can be changed (as noted) in the setup file. [[Glenn|geychaner@mac.com]] (Also the person who started this by filing an issue with MacPorts; I'm experimenting with ikiwiki for collaborative documentation.)