Re: https://wiki.debian.org/DotFiles

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 10:32:37 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> P.S. DotFiles does not mention that PATH may be set through /etc/login.defs.

I don't think this is true; it changed in Debian 10 when the shadow-utils
suite was dropped in favor of util-linux.

hobbit:~$ man login.defs
[...]
BUGS
       Much of the functionality that used to be provided by the shadow
       password suite is now handled by PAM. Thus, /etc/login.defs is no
       longer used by passwd(1), or less used by login(1), and su(1). Please
       refer to the corresponding PAM configuration files instead.

SEE ALSO
       login(1), passwd(1), su(1), passwd(5), shadow(5), pam(8).

shadow-utils 4.13                 03/23/2023                     LOGIN.DEFS(5)
hobbit:~$ su --version
su from util-linux 2.38.1