Re: Serious environment problem with 7.2 on Solaris

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Randall Perry <rgp(at)systame(dot)com> writes:
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set in root & postgres login script, but strange things
> > are happening with it. If I ssh into server using postgres account
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set. But if I su postgres from another account it isn't,
> > though all other variables from login script are set ok.
>
> Hm. Not sure about Solaris, but on HPUX plain "su postgres" does not
> run postgres' login script. You have to do "su - postgres" to make that
> happen. Perhaps Solaris has some similar distinction?

Solaris is paranoid. It will only read the profile files for 'su -
user' if the shell for the user is '/usr/bin/sh'. Nothing else is
allowed, or the profile file is not read.

At least this is true for Solaris 8, not sure about others.

Tomas