Bug#428831: GDM does not parse /etc/profile for the PATH statement.

[Chris Dos]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 14 juin 2007 à 08:14 -0600, Chris Dos a écrit :
>> Package: gdm
>> Version: 2.18.2-1
>> Severity: important
>>
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>> It seems the GDM does not get it's PATH statement from /etc/profile, or pull the PATH 
>> statement from .bash_profile when a WM is started.
> 
> AFAIK this is intentional. The PATH is inherited from /etc/login.defs.
> The /etc/profile is a configuration file for bash, not for GDM.
> 
> Cheers,

Thanks for the insight.  I could not find where the path was parsed.  It might be good to 
add a comment in one of the GDM startup files specifying where the PATH statement is 
parsed.  Thanks again.

	Chris