gdm login ignores /etc/profile?

Marius Andreiana mandreiana at rdslink.ro
Sat Oct 11 08:12:46 UTC 2003


On Vi, 2003-10-10 at 14:54, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> I think, correct me if im wrong, that profile is read for tty logins
> only (or for "su -", which uses login)
> when you login through a pts (i.e. an xterm, telnet or ssh) profile
> should not be run. bashrc, tcshrc, etc... are run instead.
this is the current behaviour, but in rhl9 it was read anyway. For
example, now you don't even have ~/bin in your PATH, as profile it's not
executed. 
Is this the intented behaviour?

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Marius Andreiana
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