Re: [Ltib] skell-1.13 should have a slightly different PATH in /etc/profile

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Stuart Hughes wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> That's a good idea, I'll put that in my list of things to update.
>
> Regards, Stuart
>
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:29 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i just noticed the contents of /etc/profile in skell-1.13 regarding
> > the default search path:
> >
> >   PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
> >
> > the problem with this path is that it doesn't give users the freedom
> > to override some of the standard system utilities with any of their
> > locally-written ones since /usr/local/bin is at the end.
> >
> >   a more flexible choice would be:
> >
> >   PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
> >
> > which keeps the system utilities at the front, but allows installation
> > of alternates in /usr/local/bin to override standard programs.  not a
> > big deal, of course, but the second PATH would be more in line with
> > what you'd find in common linux distros.
> >
> > rday

  maybe not such a good idea after all.  it naturally requires you to
be able to customize your search path when you log in and, at the
moment, i'm connecting via busybox's telnetd with:

  /usr/sbin/telnetd -l /bin/sh

and i can't seem to customize the root login search path to add the
local directories.  and if i can't do that, this idea is pretty much
dead in the water.

  i've tried editing /etc/profile and that doesn't have any effect.
thoughts?

rday
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