[COLUG] Best place for modifying path

Stephen J. Smith sjs at khadrin.com
Wed Apr 18 13:44:43 EDT 2007


On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:51:47PM -0400, Tom Hanlon wrote:
> /etc/profile seems like the most likely candidate .

Good place.  Of course the most logical component to set up the
environment would be some PAM module.  I see an
/etc/security/pam_env.conf on my Debian box.  Just an idea, I've never
tried it.  Beware of other things overriding PATH after pam_env does
it's work ;)

-Stephen


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