Thiemo Seufer wrote: > ~/.profile gets ignored, because $HOME is set to / instead of /root, > so it uses only the definitions in /etc/profile. (This also leaves > a .bash_history file in /.)
I thought that might be it too, but I cannot reproduce it in a sarge chroot with HOME unset. I think that bash looks at getpwent to find the home directory in this case. -- see shy jo
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