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Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-25 20:31:21

On 25 August 2017 at 20:34, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:

 + localuser:kevinc being removed from access control list

I dug into this a bit more.  What is your SHELL?  Specifically, what
is the "SHELL" environment variable set to?

Boy, I just took a look at whatnowsbr.c, specifically how "cd", "pwd",
and "ls" work.  Talk about knowing how the sausage is being made ...

Anyway, those commands invoke the user's shell instead of using /bin/sh,
so if you use another shell the xhost command might get invoked that
way.  Really, it's doing things like:

      $SHELL -c "cd&&pwd"

If that still prints out the xhost line if you do that from the command
line, then that's the problem.


[kevinc@drums-temp #337] printenv SHELL
/bin/tcsh
[kevinc@drums-temp #338] $SHELL -c "cd&&pwd"
localuser:kevinc being removed from access control list
/home/kevinc
[kevinc@drums-temp #339] 

I think you nailed the debugging.


--
Kevin



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