Henning Moll wrote: > It has been discussed a few days before how to setup kdm to use a > login shell: > > in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession change the first line from: > #!/bin/sh > to > #!/bin/bash --login > > ok. > > i wonder if this should be the default (it seems to be default for > xdm/gdm) as some packages need /etc/profile sourced.
Hmm. Isn't the real issue that the user expects that his login script will be sourced at login time? "/bin/bash --login" is fine if your login shell is in fact bash, but what if it's zsh, ksh, tcsh...? There really ought to be a better solution for this. Currently, /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession (on my system) contains (ignoring a few comment lines) only the following: #!/bin/sh . /etc/X11/Xsession How about the substituting the following: #!/bin/sh myshell=`grep "^$USER:" /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f 7` exec $myshell -l -c /etc/X11/Xsession Maybe there's a simpler way of determining the user's login shell? That grep-and-cut is the way I generally do it. Craig
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