On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:15:37AM -0700, prasad wrote:
> I have another question about pfexec, it does not source .profile of
> the user it runs as.  Is this by design? 

Yes: pfexec is not a shell.

Also, .profile is for login shell invocation, not for every shell
invocation.

> Is it assumed that the executable has the environment already set or
> we need to write wrappers which source the user's .profile?

The former.

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