$PATH for new users

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This may be a simple linux question… when I log into osmc and echo $PATH I get

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/osmc/bin:/opt/vc/bin

When I create a new user and echo $PATH I get:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

What is driving the difference? I know how to fix it, I can do it on .profile or .bashrc or other places, but I just want to know what is giving osmc the extra path that my other user does not have.

2

The osmc user is the default user and is set up when the OS is created and has $PATH and other variables and accesses it needs. New users are created according to the base standard of debian and the contents of /etc/skel. It you need all new users to have particular settings/folders/scripts then you can edit /etc/skel and all new users will get whatever you put in there.

3

Check /etc/profile.d. Unless you have a bad .profile or .bashrc, you should have these paths appended. However, depending on how you switch user, this may not always be the case.

4

So I simply created a new user, added it to the sudoers and I’m trying to figure out what would drive a different $PATH when I ssh in. If I ssh in as my new user, then su osmc, it still has a bath path. If I ssh in as osmc@ipaddress then my paths are good. With such a generic setup, I’m trying to figure out what is driving the difference (not just fixing it in my particular user).

My profile.d contains:

…/
./
100-add-sbin.sh*
101-apt-update.sh*
102-enable-cursor.patch*
103-generate-locale.sh*
104-add-osmc-bin.sh*
900-disable-update.sh*
901-videocore.sh*

I think it may be my /etc/profile driving it:

if [ “id -u” -eq 0 ]; then
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH

Since the user is not root.

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That’s probably it :wink: