Re: bash version: 4.3.27(1) and .bashrc / .bash_profile

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/7/14 5:02 PM, jmiguel.rodriguez@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I patched 4 servers some weeks ago ( bash version: 4.3.27(1) ) following the 
> https://shellshocker.net/ guide (which it's a simple easy way for downloading 
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3.tar.gz plus patches and compile it)
> 
> Today I realized some processes were not working as expected. After some 
> investigation I've realized that when executing commands as:
> 
> su - [user] -c [command]
> 
> neither .bashrc o .bash_profile on user home directory are executed. If I 
> just execute
> 
> su - [user]
> 
> everything it's fine.

This is controlled by the NON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS option in
config-top.h.  It's not enabled by default.  Define that option and
rebuild, and you should have the behavior you want.

I don't know what version of bash you replaced, but it's likely that Red
Hat defined that option before building the version of bash shipped with
Fedora 6.  It's been there for 15 years.

Chet
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