Can't set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .gnomerc

[James Carroll]

(Still trying to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

I wasn't sure _where_ you were going with suid stuff. Thanks for the
help though.

Also, I put the LD_LIBRARY_PATH assignement in /etc/profile and it's
still not showing up in my environment!  Something downstream... after
Xsession sources .gnomerc that's unsetting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH...  I
just can't find it.  Could it be a Debian policy to trounce
environment variables?  I did find one article talking about how they
encourage every script to set their own variables.  But
/usr/bin/python is not a script, so I can't modify it.  Also I need
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set to run some C++ programs that I'm
writing against the devoelpment wxWidgets libraries.  I end up having
to set them in a terminal, then run my programs from a terminal when
normally I could double click on them or run them from my IDE
(slickedit).

-Jim


On 4/24/05, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY <zamb at spymac.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 20:07 +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> > (If anyone have more info on the subject, please enlighten us!)
> >
> > Okay.  It seem that it's an intended behaviour for security reasons.
> > Quote from ld.so man page:
> >         The necessary shared libraries needed by the program are
> >         searched for in the following order
> >               * Using the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Except
> >                 if the executable is a setuid/setgid binary, in which
> >                 case it is ignored.
> >
> > The file ~/.gnomerc is actually sourced *before* GNOME is loaded, and
> > it's done by X, and because X is a setuid executable, will,
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored!  (By the way, ~/.gnomerc is sourced from the
> > file:
> >         /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55gnome-session_gnomerc
> > in case you wanted to know that.)
> >
> > The best solution for you (in my not-so-experienced opinion) is to put
> > the LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting in /etc/profile.  Be warned that *all* users
> > will be affected by that.
> >
> > Ziyad.
> 
> Just ignore my message.  After further reading, I begun to believe that
> the setuid issue will make the application that's setuid ignore the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH but it wont change/unset it.  So, apparently, your
> problem lies somewhere else.
> 
> Sorry for not being any help.
> As I wrote previously:
>          If anyone have more info on the subject, please help!
> 
> Ziyad.
> 
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