ports/133793: x11/gdm: gdm ignores settings from /etc/login.conf

[Andreas Wetzel]

>Number:         133793
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       x11/gdm: gdm ignores settings from /etc/login.conf
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 16 20:40:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andreas Wetzel
>Release:        7.1-RELEASE-p3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD gunhead.enforcer.cc 7.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 #3: Tue Feb 24 14:00:43 CET 2009     root at gunhead.enforcer.cc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GUNHEAD  i386
>Description:
When logging in via gdm-2.26.0_1, settings from /etc/login.conf like the path, environment variables, etc, are not picked up. Instead, gdm seems to set $PATH to a fixed, built-in default value.

The old gdm-2.22 used to pick up those settings correctly.

>How-To-Repeat:
Without setting the path explicitly via /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc, log in via GDM >= 2.24.X, open an xterm, and display the value of $PATH. It will not be that configured in /etc/login.conf.

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