Re: noob PATH question
From: Bill Waddington (william.waddington_at_beezmo.com)
Date: 06/30/05
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:29:38 -0700
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:08:19 -0700, Bill Waddington
<william.waddington@beezmo.com> wrote:
>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.
Hmmm. I must have had things totally borked yesterday. Today
/etc/default/login is behaving more like advertised, although
someone is tacking /bin:/usr/ucb to the end of paths I set there.
/bin and /usr/ucb are getting added to root and user logins, but
vanish w/su from user or root.
Pardon the noise,
Bill
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