[Bugs] #998 UNSP: wrong path for wpa_passphrase on Debian

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#998: wrong path for wpa_passphrase on Debian
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    Reporter:  sascha_silbe               |          Owner:  tomeu            
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new              
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  0.86             
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Git as of bugdate
    Severity:  Major                      |     Resolution:                   
    Keywords:  r-                         |   Distribution:  Debian           
Status_field:  New                        |  
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Changes (by tomeu):

  * keywords:  r? => r-


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:1 sascha_silbe]:
 > Another way to solve this would be to remove the hardcoded path on the
 wpa_passphrase call and add /usr/sbin to PATH during startup of Sugar.
 > Personally I'd prefer that solution since having /usr/sbin in PATH is
 useful on it's own anyway.

 Yeah, I would prefer if we used python's implementation for finding a
 binary to execute rather than cooking our own. Though I'm unsure about
 setting the PATH env var before starting Sugar, as this is something that
 distro people will mess with and may be better to avoid increasing the
 number of things that may go wrong. Perhaps the python lib has a facility
 to specify a custom set of dir paths?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/998#comment:2>
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