On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 10:41:14PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2022, nia wrote: > > > A problem many new NetBSD users encounter is that a default shell > > without an initialized home directory containing a ~/.profile > > does not include some system PATH entries that would otherwise be > > provided from /etc/skel/.profile. > > How did the new user, new home not have the dot file? > > (I'd like to fix that versus code change at first.) > > Even without the dot files, also login should set the default path (to > _PATH_DEFPATH which has the /usr/pkg/bin/ the article author needed) and > sshd sets it too (to _PATH_STDPATH which also has it). I wonder why the > default path wasn't seen? >
Display managers do not create login shells, and xdm was used.
