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@@ -16,3 +16,9 @@ This makes it a little hard to specify which specific binaries should be used, e
 > The ikiwiki script's own sanitization of PATH was done to make perl taint
 > checking happy, but as taint checking is disabled anyway, I have removed
 > that. [[done]] --[[Joey]] 
+
+Question: Do ikiwiki.cgi and the RCS post-commit script sanitize the $PATH separately from bin/ikiwiki?  If not, then bin/ikiwiki is probably right to sanitize the $PATH; otherwise you've created a security hole with access to the account that ikiwiki is SUID to. It'd be nice if /opt/local/bin were earlier in the $PATH, but that can be changed (as noted) in the setup file. [[Glenn|geychaner@mac.com]] (Also the person who started this by filing an issue with MacPorts; I'm experimenting with ikiwiki for collaborative documentation.)
+
+> The suid wrappers remove all environment variables except for a few used
+> for CGI. PATH is not propigated by them, so when they run ikiwiki it will
+> get the system's default path now. --[[Joey]]