Bug 159387 - newgrp resets LD_LIBRAY_PATH variable
Summary: newgrp resets LD_LIBRAY_PATH variable
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: util-linux
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-02 09:29 UTC by Stefan Rystedt
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-06-16 09:27:25 UTC
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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
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