RHEL 5.

The default user path in bash is
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/root/bin:/home/foobar/bin
for user "foobar". I'm trying to find how /usr/kerberos/bin and /usr/local/bin get in there. The aren't in ~/.bash*, nor in /etc/bashrc, nor /etc/profile, nor /usr/include/paths.h. Those are all the places I know to look. There is no /etc/PATH or /etc/path. Is there somewhere else I should check?

The PATH variable is set in a number of places as needed. Look in ~/.profile or ~/.bash_login, /etc/profile and the scripts in /etc/profile.d/. The kerberos part of the path is probably set in /etc/profile.d/krb5-workstation.sh.

Some services may also add to PATH. Try "sudo grep 'export .*PATH' /etc/* 2>/dev/null".

Thanks for the reply. /etc/profile.d/krb5-workstation looks promising. I had never heard of /etc/profile.d before. I would like to RTFM if I could find the FM.

/usr/local/bin is not in ~/.profile or ~/.bash_login or /etc/profile.

The only files in /etc/ which contain "PATH" and "local" are csh.login, lynx.cfg and man.config. Those don't look relevant.

The reason for my question is that some users want to have /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in their paths. This seems questionable to me, and they could do it for themselves, but now I would really like to figure out how it could be done systemwide.

Check the directory /etc/skel/. IIRC that's the directory which has the startup scripts which get copied when a new account is created.

I found /etc/environment in kubuntu that looks like it has the default path for everyone.
Kurt

Last time I checked, kubuntu isn't RHEL so how's that really going to help the OP with their question?

As for the actual path priority, really doesn't matter, /usr/bin will come before /usr/local/bin in most cases. If a user want's this preference changed, then have them set it in their own .bashrc or .bash_profile

I'm having a similar problem. See thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...6/#post3448540

I need to find that default path as well to execute a command via ssh on another host with a shared home dir. My .bash_profile is not being sourced in certain circumstances. check it out and let me know what you think.

In RHEL or CentOS add a script to /etc/profile.d to setup the path to your application.

eg. To add a path to ree (Ruby Enterprise Edition on my machine):

In /etc/profile.d/ree.sh
Follow the pattern in the other scripts in /etc/profile.d to see how this was done.