From: bet@internet.sbi.com (Bennett E. Todd) Subject: mcc 0.95c+ /bin/login bungles environment Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 23:59:27 GMT
I found a minor glitch with /bin/login from mcc-interim 0.95c+. I fixed
it by recompiling, using sources I scored from banjo, under uk.mirror.
The binary that resulted worked perfectly, so I can't point at a source
bug:-(.
The problem first became evident with rc(1) as my login shell; for some
reason bash masked or evaded it. What happened was the environment
wasn't being set up properly. I verified this by creating a login whose
login shell was printenv; several crucial variables, including HOME,
were coming out garbage.
-Bennett (curmudgeon)
bet@sbi.com