Bug 35714
| Summary: | /etc/profile incorrectly checks for executable bit | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Philip Rowlands <phr> |
| Component: | setup | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-04-18 02:01:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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That's not a bug, it's just an easy way to turn it off :) I would respectfully suggest that there are other ways to turn it off without requiring this broken behaviour (e.g rename to *.sh.x). It is a bug because it's no guard against the conditional action successfully reading the file (ditto for csh.cshrc). Being able to execve() a file is not the same as being able to open() it. I'm not reporting this to be pedantic; I've seen RPMs packaged by people who thought that a script file which is sourced needs read permissions; no more. Will be fixed in 2.4.11-1; thanks! |
/etc/profile contains the following lines: for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -x $i ]; then . $i fi done The test should be for read (-r) rather than execute (-x), because source'ing a file reads it. While you're at it, could you also fix /etc/csh.cshrc to use "-r" for this test?