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python stripping LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Jeff Shipman shippy at nmt.edu
Wed Feb 27 10:44:20 EST 2002 
Mitch Chapman wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Python is not removing LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  The runtime loader 
> ld.so is doing so.  I think this is for security reasons, 
> i.e. to prevent someone from slipping a bogus shared library
> implementation into the runtime environment of a privileged Unix
> executable.  Or something like that :)
> 
> See the ld.so(8) man page.  Here's an online copy turned up 
> by Google:
> 	http://www.cwi.nl/~aeb/linux/man2html/man8/ld.so.8.html
> 
> The relevant excerpts:
> 	The shared libraries needed by the program are searched 
> 	for in various places:
> 	...
> 	o Using the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Except 
> 	  if the executable is a setuid/setgid binary, in which 
> 	  case it is ignored. 
> 
> 

What can be done about this? Is there a place in
the python internals I can add the necessary information
to allow me to start up? I really must run this wrapper
suid to another user and it really must connect
to Oracle.

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Jeff "Shippy" Shipman     E-Mail: shippy at nmt.edu
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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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