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On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:41 pm, Sven Köhler wrote: |
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> > init.d scripts should have a pure env given to them ... which means, they |
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> > should be run with `env -i` and have only whitelisted variables given to |
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> > them (and everything that appears in /etc/conf.d/$service /etc/conf.d/rc |
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> > and /etc/rc.conf) ... |
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> Now that may be too few variables. At least the variable LANG (or |
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> whatever the system-admin may chose to set) could be seen as a |
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> system-wide language-setting. It could be intentional, that at least |
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> some variables are available to the started server-processes. Especially |
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> a system-wide language-setting would be a good idea. |
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that is the point of the whitelist idea ... we gather a 'full |
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env' (source /etc/profile i guess) and rip out just the whitelisted variables |
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to pass on to init scripts |
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-mike |
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