Bug 62545 – pam_env corrupt environment variables

Bug 62545 - pam_env corrupt environment variables

Summary:	pam_env corrupt environment variables

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	pam (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Tomas Mraz
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Reported:	2002-04-02 08:02 EST by Basil A. Evseenko
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:41 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-10-20 05:51:32 EDT
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Description Basil A. Evseenko 2002-04-02 08:02:12 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020311

Description of problem:
If i redefine PATH in /etc/security/pam_env.conf, then when i
 logging into the system - i receive garbage in PATH environmient variable. If
upgrade pam to pam-0.75-19 from updates.redhat.com
all work fine, except xdm.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. uncomment PATH in /etc/security/pam_env.conf
2. login using xdm
3. echo $PATH
	

Actual Results: 
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/)&#1066;)6&#1089;b@&#1101;z^L@&#1055;03@^Ain:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/&#1061;&#1096;2@&#9617;&#9617;
 @&#1044;^A @&#9570;&#1078;2@^Ybin&#1056;y"@HO:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

Expected Results:  /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

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Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2004-10-20 05:51:32 EDT

Cannot reproduce with latest Fedora Core.

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