svn commit: r357566 - head

[Andrew Gierth]

>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> writes:

 >> Unfortunately, the utility of this cool series of changes is mostly
 >> destroyed by the fact that PATH is the variable that could be most
 >> usefully set in login.conf for running daemons, specifically because
 >> it is set in 3 separate places now.

 Kyle> It is (and has been) set in each of them respectively, but the
 Kyle> submitter (along with sigsys at gmail.com) have some idea to accept
 Kyle> a hint in cron (and perhaps the others) from login.conf that it
 Kyle> should accept PATH as well unless it's been explicitly set in the
 Kyle> executing job.

 Kyle> I've CC'd these two so they can expand on that or discuss as
 Kyle> needed.

I'd be quite happy to go along with a proposal to unconditionally set
PATH from login.conf in cron and elsewhere.

(The idea of having a flag for it is just to avoid changing existing PATH
behavior without an explicit admin choice, to head off arguments about
security. If that's not an issue, then no need for the flag.)

-- 
Andrew.