[Server-devel] Fixing bash script bogosity - help?

[pgf at laptop.org]

bert wrote:
 > 
 > On 28.04.2009, at 13:37, Martin Langhoff wrote:
 > 
 > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
 > > <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> wrote:
 > >> Ah, I see now.
 > >>
 > >> Try this:
 > >>
 > >> bash -c 'touch "$@"' "${CMD[@]}"
 > >
 > > Riiight, that works better... but
 > >
 > >> Or in the case of the full script:
 > >>
 > >> bash -c "$ERL"' "$@"' "${ERL_COMMAND[@]}"
 > >
 > > ...it doesn't work for runuser -- which is the real target. Runuser
 > > looks at the added params after -c and tries to parse them. There
 > > doesn't seem to be any support for passing parameters.
 > >
 > > hmmmmm.
 > 
 > Maybe you should use su directly instead of runuser?

won't that have the same problem?  it still wants a command
passed via a -c STRING convention.

i think this is somewhat intractable, and any time spent on it
would be better spent creating a patch to runuser that lets it
take its command as strace does, or as xterm does with -e, which
avoids the vector->string->vector translations which are the real
issue.

paul
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