22 Jan
2020
22 Jan
'20
2:44 a.m.
On 1/20/20 12:40 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
The normal reason why I'm starting subshells is
because I need to control
various environment variables on an ad-hoc basis. It might be PYTHONPATH,
KRB5CCNAME, GPG_AGENT_INFO, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or some combination of
the above. Back when I was regularly using Kerberos root/admin bits, I
had some hard-coded shell aliases to indicate explicitly I was in a shell
that was using my tytso/root(a)ATHENA.MIT.EDU or tytso/admin(a)ATHENA.MIT.EDU
kerberos tickets.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you used a sub-shell with a modified
/ task / process specific environment. Correct?
Thank you for sharing Theodore.
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Grant. . . .
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