[rt.cpan.org #95624] cpan as root cannot install Inline without force

[jeff.janes@gmail.com via RT]

Tue May 13 17:21:02 2014: Request 95624 was acted upon.
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Subject: cpan as root cannot install Inline without force
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on CentOS6.5, perl 5.10.1, I cannot install Inline using "cpan Inline <
/dev/null".

I can install it with "cpan -f Inline < /dev/null", but that is less than
optimal.

The problem seems to be the same one as reported here:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65703

The taint test fails because the directory containing 'make' is removed
from $ENV{PATH}.

It makes sense that this happens, because of course /usr/bin/ is writable
by root. But then does that mean it is just unsupported to install through
cpan as root on any linux system? If that is the case, I think I would have
found more documentation or complaints about that.

Or is the test script supposed to give away rights, and that is not working
for me for some reason?



Thanks,

Jeff

[Reini Urban]

On 05/13/2014 04:21 PM, jeff....@gmail.com via RT wrote:
> Tue May 13 17:21:02 2014: Request 95624 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by jeff....@gmail.com
> Queue: Inline
> Subject: cpan as root cannot install Inline without force
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: (no value)
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: jeff....@gmail.com
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=95624 >
>
>
> on CentOS6.5, perl 5.10.1, I cannot install Inline using "cpan Inline <
> /dev/null".
>
> I can install it with "cpan -f Inline < /dev/null", but that is less than
> optimal.
>
> The problem seems to be the same one as reported here:
>
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=65703
>
> The taint test fails because the directory containing 'make' is removed
> from $ENV{PATH}.
>
> It makes sense that this happens, because of course /usr/bin/ is writable
> by root. But then does that mean it is just unsupported to install through
> cpan as root on any linux system? If that is the case, I think I would have
> found more documentation or complaints about that.

Thanks.
We need to skip those TAINT checks if run as root or Windows Administrator.

[sisy...@optusnet.com.au]

-----Original Message-----
From: Reini Urban

>> It makes sense that this happens, because of course /usr/bin/ is writable
>> by root.
>

> Thanks.
> We need to skip those TAINT checks if run as root or Windows
> Administrator.

You mean that we have 08taint.t check to see whether it's being run as
root/administrator ... and if it is then it skips all tests ?
That sounds ok to me (assuming it's possible to reliably detect the case).

Is it *guaranteed* that Inline won't work under -T when run as root/admin ?
Or is it merely *possible* that Inline won't work under -T when run as
root/admin ?
(The answer has a bearing on the SKIP message that we would present, and
upon the modification we would make to the TAINT documentation that we
provide.)

Patch welcome.

Does anyone actually use -T and Inline ?
If so, do they use it safely ?

Cheers,
Rob

[Ed J via RT]

Thu Jun 12 04:34:47 2014: Request 95624 was acted upon.
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I'd be very interested to know whether the change proposed in https://github.com/mohawk2/inline-pm/commit/f9242a2e92244d99a2ce051c9ae523913eb47fc4 fixes this issue.

[Sisyphus via RT]

Tue Jun 24 05:08:35 2014: Request 95624 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by SISYPHUS

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Fixed as of 0.55_01