Bug 1251192

Summary:	rfe: please change gdm to not add :/bin:/sbin to $PATH
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2015-08-06 16:23:37 UTC

Description of problem:
gdm adds the "old school" dirs to the default $PATH for uses sessions. It's not harmful, but has some downsides:
- every path search is infinitesimally slower
- every execve strace log is longer
- anyone looking at $PATH has to think longer

Since the /usr split is long gone, please consider removing it also from the path.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.16.2-1.fc22.x86_64

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2015-08-06 16:39:18 UTC

okay i added 

--with-default-path=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin \

to the configure line