PATH assignment for telnet and ssh sessions

From: Andreas Höschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 07:39:57 EST

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Dear managers,

I have /etc/default/login with

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/apache/bin:/
usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/FrontBase/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/
bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin

and /etc/profile with

export LOGNAME PATH

When I telnet to the machine I would expect "echo $PATH" to give me
what I configured in /etc/default/login. However, I get

/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:.:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/
sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/FrontBase/bin

I am puzzled. How exactly does the assignment of PATH for telnet and
ssh sessions work? I never fully got behind that?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

   Andreas
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