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Re: bash root ~/.bash_profile quirk
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: bash root ~/.bash_profile quirk |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:20:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
asherwolf <asher@asherwolf.com> writes:
> When I use su to log into root, PATH is there, LD_RUN_PATH is there, and
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH is there, but not LD_LIBRARY_PATH (which makes some of my
> programs not cooperate)
>
> Is there something I'm missing? Why would an environment variable not show
> up?
A setuid binary ignores LD_LIBRARY_PATH for security reasons.
Andreas.
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