Hi Paul, hi Chris, Paul de Weerd wrote on Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:01:28PM +0200: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:48:08PM -0400, Chris Nolan wrote:
>> Hello, I read through the FAQ and searched the archives but couldn't >> find an answer to this question. In /src/distrib/sets/lists/etc/mi, >> why does openbsd include the .cshrc and .profile files in the root >> directory? > If you log in but you're homedir is unavailable (not mounted (nfs ?)) > you'll get logged in with CWD in /. You'll then also get the /.profile > or the /.cshrc as appropriate to your shell. That's what i might have suspected, too, but it does not appear to be true. When your home directory is unavailable, your $PWD will indeed be / after logging in, but your $HOME is still what is defined in the passwd(5) file, and /.profile does not appear to be sourced. Look here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # echo 'export TESTVAR="testvalue"' > /.profile [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ls -al /.profile /etc/profile ls: /etc/profile: No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 27 Sep 29 22:50 /.profile [EMAIL PROTECTED] # umount /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ls -a /home . .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh athene [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #60: Wed Sep 26 20:43:39 CEST 2007 Could not chdir to home directory /home/schwarze: No such file or directory $ echo $SHELL /bin/sh $ echo $HOME /home/schwarze $ pwd / $ echo "TESTVAR = '$TESTVAR'" TESTVAR = '' This behaviour conforms to sh(1) and ksh(1): :: -l Login shell. If the basename the shell is called with (i.e. :: argv[0]) starts with `-' or if this option is used, the shell is :: assumed to be a login shell and the shell reads and executes the :: contents of /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile if they exist and are :: readable. Nothing about $PWD/.profile round here... For csh(1), things look similar. See login(1), ssh(1) and /usr/src/usr.bin/ssh/session.c to learn how login and ssh are setting $HOME. Yours, Ingo
