> The user's .profile is to be read by the shell, on interactive shell > (i.e. terminal) logins ONLY
This is incorrect, .profile is read by the shell also when the shell is non-interactive. Here is the quote from the bash manual: > When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a > non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and > executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. > After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, > and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the > first one that exists and is readable. A not so far fetched example of a non interactive login shell is something like this, where I want to source .profile but not .bashrc $ ssh localhost "bash --login -c 'env'" This means that .profile might be read with no tty attached, and we should test for the presens of an attached tty when invoking stty in .profile .profile: tty -s && stty erase ^H I am interpreting a xsession as a login shell that should source .profile. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1468832 Title: lightdm sources .profile To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1468832/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
