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

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:20 -0600, Chris Dos wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> 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.

/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf does mention this:

# Default path to set.  The profile scripts will likely override this value.
DefaultPath=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

Would this be a good place to mention /etc/login.defs?

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Sven Arvidsson
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