noob PATH question

From: Bill Waddington (william.waddington_at_beezmo.com)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:08:19 -0700

I'm an old guy with a really embarassing newbie question:

Per advice on blastwave.org I am trying to set PATH globally
by providing PATH and SUPATH in /etc/default/login and
/etc/default/su.

What I find is that these seem to apply to root logins and
user su, but _not_ to a user login. Im running SNV_16 and JDS,
bash for root and users.

Is there really one (or two) place(s) to set PATH, or does it
move depending on user and shell? In the past I have always
just fiddled PATH on the fly. I know I can diddle /etc/profile
and my .profile, but I would like to find a single location and
be done with it.

TIA
Bill 

-- 
William D Waddington
william.waddington@beezmo.com
"Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch

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