Bug#657103: rkhunter: Invalid BINDIR configuration option: Invalid directory found: ~/bin

[Jesse Molina]

Sorry for slow reply.

-->echo $PATH
~/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

-->egrep PATH= .bash*
.bash_profile:PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:${PATH}"
.bash_profile:    PATH="~/bin:${PATH}"



-->sudo rkhunter --propupd
Invalid BINDIR configuration option: Invalid directory found: ~/bin
[~]
-->PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
[~]
-->sudo rkhunter --propupd
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.3.8 ]
^C[~]
-->PATH="~/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
[~]
-->sudo rkhunter --propupd
Invalid BINDIR configuration option: Invalid directory found: ~/bin



The question as to why BINDIR in the config file is being ignored remains.

-->egrep "^BINDIR" /etc/rkhunter.conf
BINDIR="/bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin 
/usr/libexec /usr/local/libexec"




Julien Valroff wrote:
> How do you define your $PATH?
>
> Make sure you do not use ' which would prevent ~/ from being expanded to
> /home/username/
>
>      PATH=$PATH:~/bin
>
> is enough
>
> The rkhunter warning is actually normal as it doesn't accept any directory
> in $PATH or $BINDIR which doesn't begin with / - which is a safe way to
> avoid relative paths.

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