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I have a question about the path.

I am going to modify .bash_profile to add something to my path

this is what I put in the file

"Path=/usr/libexec/openssh/"

and as a result I could not log into Redhat as myself...Had to log in as root them update the .bash_profile by removig the above Path...

After that everything worked fine!

I was wondering why I could not add this to my path?

Thanks

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/libexec/openssh/"


Cheers,
Tink

What you had done was not ADDING TO the path, but instead was REPLACING the path.
As Tinkster wrote it, you include the current path ($PATH) in your new path so you don't lose anything that's already there.