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Re: Allowing users to change execvpâs shell?

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Ludovic CourtÃs <ludo at gnu dot org>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:04:31 +0100
Subject: Re: Allowing users to change execvpâs shell?
References: <87a9temdgw.fsf@gnu.org>

On 12/16/2012 12:41 PM, Ludovic CourtÃs wrote:

In the context of GNU Guix, Iâm pondering a change that would allow
users to change the shell used by âexecvpâ (more details about the
rationale at <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/9748>),

Frankly, I don't see how changing glibc fixes your problem. Could you elaborate? It's certainly odd to change libc because the file system layout is not what is expected.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team

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- Allowing users to change execvpâs shell?
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