Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

From: Wayne Topa (brittman_at_capital.net)
Date: 06/17/04

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:22:26 -0400
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Michael Graham(oobermick@yahoo.co.uk) is reported to have said:
    > Michael wrote:
    > > >
    > > > Now do you have the display manager source every possible file that
    > > > should be sourced for each possible shell? Only source the files
    > > > that should be sourced for the shell that the login manager
    > > > uses? Or do you setup a system where by the users shell is
    > > > determined and the appropriate files sourced?
    > >
    > > Ok, I'll play along just for a moment -- let's assume that what you're
    > > saying is true. Then we are faced with two choices:
    > >
    > > A) Choose bash and screw sh, csh, tcsh, or whatever-sh users
    > > B) Do nothing and continue to screw everybody
    > >
    > > If we had a vote I think I would put my paycheck on A. If someone is
    > > running something other than the default shell they shouldn't have a
    > > problem hacking their own profile. But they don't need to ...
    >
    > Of course you can do that it's just that at the moment most the scripts
    > are sh not bash but it could be done.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Huh?

    % which sh
    /bin/sh
    % ls -l /bin/sh
    /bin/sh -> bash 

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