Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

["Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>]

Ashish Ariga wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:56, Daniel B. wrote:
> > Paul Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > .. If you're using a graphical login manager like GDM or
> > > XDM, then these methods of login never actually invoke a login shell,
> >
> > Why not?  (Why shouldn't logging in via GDM execute your login-time
> > shell initialization?)
> >
> 
> That's the default behaviour. 

Again, why should it be that way?  

Why shouldn't the user be able to log in and count on standard login
initialization's having been performed?

Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
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