Thank you Hugh! You were right - I was just doing "$su martin" to test
out the new user. I had no clue that that retained my environment - su
with the dash shows that his path is fine.
I would have struggled for who knows how many more hours with this. I
guess I should look up every command I use, even if I don't think that's
the problem - lesson learned!
Thanks very much.
Ashleigh
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:17, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> Hi Ashleigh:
>
> How are you testing the new user? Are logging from a console/terminal
> session or are you using su? If the later are you using "su martin"
> or "su - martin"? If the former then that would explain it. "su"
> without the dash retains your environment. Use "su -" to get the
> target user's environment (including path). This goes for root as
> well.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards, Hugh
>
> --
> Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com
>
> From: ashleigh smythe Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 17:46
> >
> > Hello. I've been learning Redhat for a few months now. I recently
> > tried to upgrade from 7.2 to 9.0 but ended up having to reinstall
> > instead. So now I'm trying to get back to where I was, and add a new
> > user, martin. I had been the only user, so I've been both root and
> > ashleigh. I can't recall what it was before moving up to 9, but now my
> > $PATH (default from the installation I guess - I haven't changed it) is:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/ashleigh/bin
> >
> > As root, I've created a new user both using the gnome graphical
> > config-users tool and at the command line with useradd. No matter what
> > I do the new user ends up with the same path that includes one of my
> > directories:
> >
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/ashleigh/bin
> >
> > Both users' .bash_profile looks like:
> >
> > # .bash_profile
> >
> > # Get the aliases and functions
> > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
> > . ~/.bashrc
> > fi
> >
> > # User specific environment and startup programs
> >
> > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
> >
> > export PATH
> > unset USERNAME
> >
> >
> >
> > The /etc/profile looks like:
> >
> > # /etc/profile
> >
> > # System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup
> > # Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc
> >
> > pathmunge () {
> > if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
> > if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
> > PATH=$PATH:$1
> > else
> > PATH=$1:$PATH
> > fi
> > fi
> > }
> >
> > # Path manipulation
> > if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then
> > pathmunge /sbin
> > pathmunge /usr/sbin
> > pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
> > fi
> >
> > pathmunge /usr/X11R6/bin after
> >
> > unset pathmunge
> >
> > # No core files by default
> > ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > USER="`id -un`"
> > LOGNAME=$USER
> > MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
> >
> > HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
> > HISTSIZE=1000
> >
> > if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
> > INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
> > fi
> >
> > export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
> >
> > for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
> > if [ -r "$i" ]; then
> > . $i
> > fi
> > done
> >
> > unset i
> >
> >
> > I've have been reading documentation online and help archives all day
> > and can only figure out how to add directories to my path with export, I
> > can't figure out the proper way to edit the /etc/profile or the
> > .bash_profile to fix this problem. All the examples shown look very
> > different from my /etc/profile - what is PATH=$PATH:$1 else
> > PATH=$1:$PATH?
> >
> > I'd really appreciate some clarification on this when someone has a
> > chance.
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> >
> > ashleigh
>
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