Folks, I was trying to change the path for users of my freshly installed Debian machine. I found (to my dismay) that /etc/profile is NOT used if I login at the console using 'xdm', but IS used if I login remotely (using ssh). There seem to be multiple options for fixing this problem, I was wondering if there is a standard one. Is this a deliberate decision on the part of 'the maintainers'? It doesn't seem to work that way on my Debian cluster at home. Simon Read