Nick R on Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:48:23 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] RE: Path

Hmm, you were right about those paths only being included for the superuser, only when I do an su w/ing an nxterm window this doesn't seem to apply. That leaves me with a question:
If I do su w/ the -l argument, will that give me everything that logging into a terminal as root will give me, or will I still have some kind of hidden limitations and small differences that could become a pain?

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From: Alexander John Batyi <bud@buxcom.net>
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To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: Re: [Plug] RE: Path
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 08:06:33 -0400 (EDT)

> Global setting should go in /etc/profile and per user settings
> in $HOME/.profile while the defaults are probably
> hardcoded in /bin/login

I just found a file called login.defs.  The hardcoded PATH
in /bin/login is /bin:/usr/bin and /etc/login.defs supersedes this
with /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin for normal users (ENV_PATH) and
more for superuser (ENV_SUPATH).  /etc/profile ADDS to this by
including the existing PATH (PATH=$PATH:...) and tacking on
some more directories.


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