Package: base-files Version: 8+deb8u8 im on a AWS EC2 instance running jessie stable and my /etc/debian_version says 8.8.
i was trying to set some vars on /etc/environment and /etc/login.defs, one of them is PATH. then i logged in found my setting of PATH ignored. then i opened /etc/profile and noticed that it is completely overriding PATH with pretty much teh same stuff found on /etc/login.defs. then(2) i logged in with a non-login shell and my setting of PATH kicked in as expected. since we use pam (sry if im wrong), i propose that /etc/profile should not override stuff liek PATH or umask (ive seen this a thousand tiems) and instead leave teh pam modules do their job by default. <3 -- Igor
