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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] ci/lib-docker: preserve required environment variables
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 21:55:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200403195551.GB7859@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200403100931.GA32101@danh.dev>

On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 05:09:31PM +0700, Danh Doan wrote:
> On 2020-04-03 10:22:54+0200, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 08:04:01PM +0700, Đoàn Trần Công Danh wrote:
> > > We're using "su -m" to preserve environment variables in the shell run
> > > by "su". But, that options will be ignored while "-l" (aka "--login") is
> > > specified.
> > 
> > This is not true.  See any previous runs of the 32 bit Linux job,
> > which worked as expected, because none of these environment variables
> > were cleared.
> 
> Different su have different behavior when combine "-m" and "-l"
> 
> util-linux's su has this as far as 60541961f, (docs: improve grammar,
> wording and formatting of su man page, 2013-10-12)
> 
>        -m, -p, --preserve-environment
>               Preserve the entire environment, i.e., it does not set HOME,
>               SHELL, USER nor LOGNAME.  This option is ignored if the option
>               --login is specified.
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/tree/login-utils/su.1#n120
> 
> Ubuntu (our Linux32 builder), ships su by shadow-utils:
> 
> 	Note that the default behavior for the environment is the following:
> 		The $HOME, $SHELL, $USER, $LOGNAME, $PATH,
> 		and $IFS environment variables are reset.
> 
> 		If --login is not used, the environment is copied,
> 		except for the variables above.
> 
> 		If --login is used, the $TERM, $COLORTERM, $DISPLAY, and
> 		$XAUTHORITY environment variables are copied if they were set.
> 
> There're no mentions of other variables, I _think_ our Linux32 works
> by accident.

We do know which image we use, and we do know how its 'su' behaves.  I
think relying on that is fine, and it's not just "works by accident".

> Alpine ships su from busybox, this su ignores "-m" if "-l" is set.

Then the commit message should specifically mention these behavior
differences between different 'su' variants.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-03 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-26  7:35 [PATCH 0/3] add travis job for linux with musl libc Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] ci: libify logic for usage and checking CI_USER Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 16:06   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-03-28 17:53   ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-03-29  6:36     ` Danh Doan
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29  5:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] add travis job for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-03-29 10:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Travis + Azure jobs " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ci: libify logic for usage and checking CI_USER Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-01 21:51     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-01 22:18     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-04-02  1:42       ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:53       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-07 21:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-10 13:38           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-29 16:23   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Travis + Azure jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-02 13:03   ` [PATCH v3 0/6] " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] ci: make MAKEFLAGS available inside the Docker container in the Linux32 job Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] ci/lib-docker: preserve required environment variables Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-03  8:22       ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-04-03 10:09         ` Danh Doan
2020-04-03 19:55           ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] ci/linux32: parameterise command to switch arch Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] ci/linux32: libify install-dependencies step Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 17:53     ` [PATCH v3 0/6] Travis + Azure jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-03  0:23       ` Danh Doan
2020-04-04  1:08   ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Travis " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 1/6] ci: make MAKEFLAGS available inside the Docker container in the Linux32 job Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 2/6] ci/lib-docker: preserve required environment variables Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 3/6] ci/linux32: parameterise command to switch arch Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 4/6] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 5/6] ci/linux32: libify install-dependencies step Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 6/6] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-05 20:39     ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Travis jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07 14:55       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-07 19:25         ` Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-09 20:55 [PATCH] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10  2:10 ` Taylor Blau
2020-03-10 15:51   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10 12:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-10 16:00   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10 18:56 ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-10 22:56   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-12 18:04     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-12 22:40       ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-14  8:04         ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-17  3:03           ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 17:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-18 19:28     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 19:55       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-18 20:41         ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-18 23:39           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-19  0:17             ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-18 20:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-26 17:50   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-26 19:17     ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-26 19:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] t3402: use POSIX compliant regex(7) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-30  4:06 ` [PATCH v3] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits Jonathan Tan
2020-03-30  5:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-30  5:22   ` Danh Doan
2020-03-30 12:13   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-03-30 16:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-30 16:57     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-31 11:55       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-03-31 16:27   ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-31 18:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-31 18:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-10 22:27     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-04-11  0:06       ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-11  1:11         ` Jonathan Tan
2020-04-11  2:46           ` Elijah Newren

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