sbin and PATH

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Thu Sep 9 07:49:13 CDT 2004


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 07:41:50PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:06:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:52:33AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > This seems to be the consensus.  Unfortunately, setting the default path is
> > > historically a nightmare in Unix-ish systems.  I think we need to change at
> > > least the following:
> > > 
> > > - /etc/profile
> > > - /etc/login.defs
> > > - other shell init files (zsh?)
> > > - anything else?
> > 
> > - sshd (compiled in)
> 
> I'm content to leave that one alone.  It'll be overridden by the shell by
> default.

Only in interactive logins, usually.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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