[12318] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6R: login not reading user .profile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (delgado@MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 2 17:03:32 1994
From: delgado@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 94 17:03:25 EDT
System name: green-acres
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.6R
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Login at my Sun workstation
What's wrong:
The login subsystem does not appear to read my .profile
at login time. I am using ksh for my login shell.
I've tried logging into a dec mips via 'rlogin' and this seems to
work correctly (the .profile is read and the environment setup).
It doesn't work on SunOS at the console.
What should have happened:
The system should read the user's .profile when the user
logs in and set up the user's environment accordingly
There is a special secion in the SunOS ksh man page
entitled "Invocation" which describes how to invoke
the ksh from exec forcing the user's .profile to be
incorporated into the enviornment. Perhaps this is a clue.
