[Pythonmac-SIG] Round 2 with Leopard+Python

[Boyd Waters]

One work-around is to add this line to /etc/sudoers:

Defaults        env_keep += "PYTHONPATH"



But that would involve editing a file in /etc as root.  
Straightforward enough, but likely to get overwritten and what if the  
user screws this up?


So Plan B -

what if you added something in a .pth file in /Library/Python/2.5/ 
site-packages that re-orders the sys.path?

Wouldn't that always work?




On Nov 2, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Boyd Waters wrote:

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> On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Brian Granger wrote:
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>>  First, if you have set PYTHONPATH to point
>> sys.path at the site-packages in /Library, this setting will be lost
>> when you do:
>>
>> sudo python setup.py install
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>
> Ouch, another good one...
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> This is almost certainly not a bug, but rather a security feature.
>
>> The administrator can add a line to the sudoers file:
>>
>> Defaults  env_reset
>>
>> that will reset the environment to only contain the variables  
>> HOME, LOGNAME,
>> PATH, SHELL, TERM, and USER, preventing this attack.
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