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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn | 9 |
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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]] |