Re: xsrc/54851 (.profile is not read by sh when using xdm or other login managers)

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, nia wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR xsrc/54851; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: xsrc/54851 (.profile is not read by sh when using xdm or other
> login managers)
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:05:45 +0000
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 01:05:02PM +0000, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> >  1) the DEF_USER_PAH we set in xmd reach-over makefile is wrong (netbsd bug)
>
> I do agree with this - NetBSD's the only OS that doesn't include the
> sbin directories in DEF_USER_PAH by default.  Are you happy with
> it being modified to include the sbin directories for harmonization?
>
> IMO if we want to teach xdm about sysctl user.cs_path it should be
> done upstream.

Untrue. I'm pretty sure SUSE doesn't include sbin.

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