On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:13:33PM -0400, Peter Fraser wrote: > I was a user of "bash", but with 3.9 I thought > I would try to use ksh my normal shell. So > far so good. One problem though, "man ksh" > states: > > A privileged shell does not process $HOME/.profile > nor the ENV parameter. Instead, the file > /etc/suid_profile is processed. > > 1) /etc/suid_profile is not getting executed. > I don't know why, its ownership is "root:wheel" with > permission 700. > > 2) ENV will get process with privileged shells on > recursive calls. For example: > > sudo ksh > export ENV=~/.kshrc > ksh > > you will see with the second ksh, that the ENV > was executed. > > Any help please
are you sure that your initial shell invocation is a privileged shell? i.e. somewhere along the line, -p is happening. jmc
