Nicolas Williams wrote: [] > > As an aside: /bin/login usually removes or defaults certain variables in > the environment, but usually it does so using a static internal list; it > would be nice if there way a way for the administrator to specify > additional variables to be removed from the environment prior to > execing the user's shell. Environment variables was already been discussed and rejected in this thread. But anyways: /bin/login usually initializes only limited built-in list of variables, _discarding the rest_ (i.e. by default env.var is removed, not preserved). > Nico Regards, Michael.