Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:22:20 +0800 (WST) | From | raven@themaw ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make automounter runnable in foreground and add stderr logging |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:49:17 +0300, Denis Vlasenko said: > > > PS: is there a reason why automount does this? > > > > /* include/config.h. Generated by configure. */ > > #define PATH_MOUNT "/usr/bin/mount" > > #define PATH_UMOUNT "/usr/bin/umount" > > #define PATH_E2FSCK "/usr/bin/fsck.ext2" > > #define PATH_E3FSCK "/usr/bin/fsck.ext3" > > > > We have $PATH for ages... > > Yes, and sometimes you specifically want to make sure you pick up the > right official binary, and not some other one that happens to be in $PATH. > If somebody manages to get automount launched with an insecure $PATH, you > could end up invoking a trojaned mount command (remember why "." in $PATH > is a security issue....) >
And that would be the point of using configure to find this path info. rather than using $PATH.
Ian
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