[Bug 1384327] [NEW] lxc-attach --clear-env results in a limited $PATH in the container

[Simon Déziel]

Public bug reported:

Here is the problem in more details:

 # Clearing the env
 $ printf 'echo $PATH\n' | sudo lxc-attach --clear-env -n p1
 /bin:/usr/bin

 # Keeping the env
 $ printf 'echo $PATH\n' | sudo lxc-attach --keep-env -n p1
 /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

While keeping the env seems like a good workaround it cause other
undesirable effects like preserving $HOME that doesn't (always) exist in
the container.

Additional information:

$ apt-cache policy lxc
lxc:
  Installed: 1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.5-0ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1.0.3-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Both host and container are:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:	14.04

** Affects: lxc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Summary changed:

- lxc-attach --clear-env resulted in a limited $PATH in the container
+ lxc-attach --clear-env results in a limited $PATH in the container

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