Bug 159387

Summary:	newgrp resets LD_LIBRAY_PATH variable
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Stefan Rystedt <ryz>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Karel Zak <kzak>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Stefan Rystedt 2005-06-02 09:29:34 UTC

Description of problem:
The newgrp commands resets the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.
This wreck havocs with many of the scripts we are using today.
It does not do that in solaris version of newgrp. Is this an
intended featur or a bug?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
util-linux-2.11y-31.1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
2. run newgrp
3. echo LD_LIBRAY_PATH and se that it is undefined
  
Actual results:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets undefined.

Expected results:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH should keep its value.

Comment 1 Karel Zak 2005-06-02 12:50:25 UTC

-rws--x--x  1 root root 10112 Dec 21 21:43 /usr/bin/newgrp
   ^
 it's feature