Bug 1251320

Summary: rfe: please change login to not add /bin:/sbin to $PATH
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Zbigniew JÄ™drzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: jonathan, kzak
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Fixed In Version: 2.27-0.2.fc23 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-08-12 09:01:53 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2015-08-07 01:03:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
login adds the "old school" dirs to the default $PATH. 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. gdm (which sets the paths for graphical user sessions, now uses to 
--with-default-path=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[test@rawhide ~]$ rpm -qf /bin/login
util-linux-2.27-0.1.fc24.x86_64

[test@rawhide ~]$ strings /bin/login|grep :/bin
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Comment 1 Karel Zak 2015-08-12 08:46:50 UTC 
Good point...
Comment 2 Karel Zak 2015-08-12 09:01:53 UTC 
Fixed in f23 and rawhide.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-08-12 09:15:01 UTC 
util-linux-2.27-0.2.fc23 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 23.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/util-linux-2.27-0.2.fc23
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-08-26 04:34:05 UTC 
util-linux-2.27-0.2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.