add scp path to _PATH_STDPATH

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Fri Mar 2 12:12:36 EST 2001


On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Kevin Taylor wrote:

> Kevin Steves wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Tim Rice wrote:
> > : > i don't like munging path if a user specified a path
> > :
> > : Then you still have the same problem of scp not working.
> > : Configure does give ample warning when it modifies the path.
> > : I figure if someone REALLY wants a path that doesn't iclude the location
> > : of scp they can edit config.h after configure runs.
> > 
> > i still believe --with-default-path= should *not* be modified.  the
> > default settings should work (today they don't) and if a user chooses to
> > override them we shouldn't assume to know more than they do.  if we
> > want, we can display warning message for this case.
> 
> 
> I had to set --with-default-path because openssh wasn't reading stuff in
> my /etc/default/login file (on IRIX)....and because UseLogin wasn't

Ah, another platform that could take advantage of reading PATH/SUPATH 
from /etc/default/login.
Perhaps something for the TODO list.

> working, the correct path to scp was not being found.
> 
> That's an instance where it needs to be modified.
> 

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