[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#525908: Bug#525908: Missing $SHELL variable is the problem

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 12.05.2009, 22:56 +0300 schrieb Andrei Popescu:
> package nodm
> retitle 525908 nodm is not setting up $SHELL for the user on system start
> thanks
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Some more investigation reveals that the SHELL environment is not 
> properly set on first start, but if nodm is restarted
> (/etc/init.d/nodm restart) then everything is fine.

this is not surprising: When you restart nodm, you are obviously running
in some shell that has set the SHELL variable. (You could verify that)

This leads to the question whether nodm should clean it’s environment,
and it probably should – again, help would be appreciated in seeing what
xdm or gdm do: What of their environment do they retain, what do they
delete and what do they actively set.

Greetings,
Joachim

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