Bug#907145: closed by Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org> (Re: Bug#907145: gksu: Fails to change PATH according to /ect/sudoers)
Chris Tillman
toff.tillman at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 20:59:22 BST 2018
Aha! Thank you. Since it was used in the menu shortcut of "Root Terminal"
for anyone who used the XFCE desktop, perhaps it should be moved to "xfce4"
? They should probably replace the implementation of the menu since they
formerly depended on gksu. I verified after upgrading all packages to
current testing that my menu for "Root Terminal" still references gksu.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:48 PM Debian Bug Tracking System <
owner at bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the gksu package:
>
> #907145: gksu: Fails to change PATH according to /ect/sudoers
>
> It has been closed by Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Jeremy Bicha <
> jbicha at debian.org> by
> replying to this email.
>
>
> --
> 907145: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907145
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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org>
> To: toff.tillman at gmail.com, 907145-done at bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:44:24 -0400
> Subject: Re: Bug#907145: gksu: Fails to change PATH according to
> /ect/sudoers
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:24 AM Chris Tillman <toff.tillman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This showed gksu is not changing the path when calling xfce4-terminal.
>
> gksu was removed from Debian Testing in January and from Unstable 2
> months after that. Therefore, gksu is no longer supported in Testing
> at all.
>
> For your other issues, maybe this explanation will help some:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460478/debian-su-and-su-path-differences/460769#460769
>
> I am closing this bug because there is nothing we can do in gksu and
> it's not obvious to me whether there is another package to reassign
> this issue to.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Chris Tillman <toff.tillman at gmail.com>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 22:21:37 +1200
> Subject: gksu: Fails to change PATH according to /ect/sudoers
> Package: gksu
> Version: 2.0.2-9+b1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
> I was upgrading the testing distribution after several months using
> aptitude. I
> upgraded about half the packages, but when I went to upgrade the other
> half I
> received errors from dpkg:
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
> Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
> /sbin
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> I searched online and found the cause of the errors was, as the error
> states,
> the PATH being incorrect. I checked the PATH resulting when I chose "Root
> Terminal" from the menu, and this path did not include the sbin
> directories.
>
> root at ctillman:/home/chris# echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
>
> I tried sudo from a regular user terminal window to check the path which
> would
> come up with it:
>
> chris at ctillman:~$ sudo bash -c 'echo $PATH'
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
>
> And then, because gksu starts Root Terminal, I tried the equivalent with
> gksu:
>
> chris at ctillman:~$ gksu "bash -c 'echo $PATH'"
> gksu-run: gksu/bash -c 'echo
>
> |usr|local|bin:|usr|bin:|bin:|usr|local|games:|usr|games'/5044-0-ctillman_TIME11346051
> gksu-run: 1f53968cb8fe3d752131e6a334975c84
>
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
>
> This showed gksu is not changing the path when calling xfce4-terminal.
>
> My /etc/sudoers contents:
>
> root at ctillman:~# cat /etc/sudoers
> #
> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
> #
> # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
> # directly modifying this file.
> #
> # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
> #
> Defaults env_reset
> Defaults mail_badpass
> Defaults
> secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
>
> # Host alias specification
>
> # User alias specification
>
> # Cmnd alias specification
>
> # User privilege specification
> root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
> chris ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>
> # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
> %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>
> # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
>
> #includedir /etc/sudoers.d
>
>
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages gksu depends on:
> ii gconf-service 3.2.6-4.1
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.28.1-1
> ii libc6 2.27-5
> ii libcairo2 1.15.10-3
> ii libfontconfig1 2.13.0-5
> ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-2
> ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-4.1
> ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.12-2
> ii libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-9+b2
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.1-2
> ii libgnome-keyring0 3.12.0-1+b2
> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-2
> ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-1
> ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-1
> ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.42.4-1
> ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5
> ii sudo 1.8.23-2
>
> Versions of packages gksu recommends:
> ii gnome-keyring 3.28.2-1
>
> gksu suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
--
Chris Tillman
Developer
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