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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/using_svn+ssh_with_ikiwiki.mdwn | 2 |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn index 5097acaef..6781d4b4b 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn @@ -16,3 +16,9 @@ This makes it a little hard to specify which specific binaries should be used, e > 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]] + +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.) + +> The suid wrappers remove all environment variables except for a few used +> for CGI. PATH is not propigated by them, so when they run ikiwiki it will +> get the system's default path now. --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/forum/using_svn+ssh_with_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/forum/using_svn+ssh_with_ikiwiki.mdwn index ce271722c..8d9c27e46 100644 --- a/doc/forum/using_svn+ssh_with_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/using_svn+ssh_with_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ I think this is because, despite a SetEnv directive in the apache configuration, > That seems likely. You can edit Wrapper.pm and add SVN_SSH to the @envsave list and rebuild your wrappers to test it. --Joey A better way(?) would be to add a plugin to set the SVN_SSH variable at the appropriate moment (or even to add this to the SVN plugin). What kind of hook should this be; it needs to run just *after* the CGI script cleans its environment? --[[Glenn|geychaner@mac.com]] + +Actually, this probably doesn't need to be a plugin; setting SVN_SSH in ENV can probably be done through the setup file. (Right?) --[[Glenn|geychaner@mac.com]] |