[Adduser-devel] Ditch full paths in favor of locally set PATH?

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said:
> This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in reply to #357978, I intend to drop the explicitly listed paths from
> > the adduser code. Instead, ENV{"PATH"} will be reset to
> > /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin to allow local diversions while still
> > preferring the system binaries.
> > 
> > Any comments?
> 
> I think if the sysadmin really wants to override one of the important
> system utilities, it should be allowed.  Indeed, I do this at one site
> at work to make passwd talk to LDAP.
> 
> This patch looks for the right executable in $PATH, instead of
> hardcoding, which feels correct to me.

And has a bunch of brokenness in it.  Let me rework it.  Sorry - I
really need to get a real test environment going on that laptop.
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