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On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:39:19 +0200 Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
/home/cer/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin
That's very strange. Why does /usr/sbin appear twice? Something's seriously borked there. Also, on my system there is no usr/lib/mit/bin directory, FWIW. And no KDE of course.
User paths, looking back at some older systems -
12.3 - /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games 10.3 - /opt/kde3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin 11.3 - /usr/lib/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/per/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games 11.0 - /home/per/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin 15.1 - /home/per/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin (without X).
Does a new user on your system get /usr/sbin added to their path? Ordinary users are definitely not supposed to have it.
I'm intrigued by that /mit/ path, but it has obviously gone away, so it is of purely archeological interest.
All the executables in that directory are kerberos-related. No idea why they're on my system.
I would expect /usr/sbin/ to be added somewhere by a local user profile, but it's just a hunch.
The standard place is /etc/profile: if test "$UID" = 0 ; then test -d /opt/kde3/sbin && PATH=/opt/kde3/sbin:$PATH PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH fi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org