On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:00:16PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > i created /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98ossi_envsetup containing > > > > . /etc/profile > > test $HOME/.profile && . $HOME/.profile > > This is not correct because login script should not be sourced when X is > started from text mode using startx. > oops ... right ...
> I believe the correct solution is something like > #!/bin/bash --login > on the top of /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession (and Xsessions of other dm's). > this suffers from the same security (well, policy enforcement) problem as my version. > But it is wrong if user's shell is not bash. > so why not source the files explicitly? this also has another downside: bash will prefer .bash_profile over .profile. but my .bash_profile contains . ~/.profile . ~/.bashrc this is a neat trick to ensure that the interactive setup is loaded by all interactive shells - and only by them. > By the way, if login script is used only to set some environment vars > and these vars are system-wide, /etc/environment may be used. It is > loaded by pam_env. > correct. i already filed a wish against pam to use ~/.environment as well, but it does not look like it will be done anytime soon. greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
