What is a Login Shell?

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A login shell executes:

Definition

A login shell is a shell:

  • whose first character of argument zero ($0) is a -
  • or started with the –login or -l option.

Command such as bash, sudo can create shells on the fly. In case, you want to run the login script, you need to run them as login shell with the –login or -l option.

Login and logout script

Login

When bash is invoked as:

it reads and executes commands from the following files in this order:

  • /etc/profile,
  • ~/.bash_profile, # only read by bash
  • ~/.bash_login, # only read by bash
  • and ~/.profile,

The file must exists and be readable.

The –noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

Logout

When a login shell exits, bash reads and executes commands from the files:

  • /etc/logout
  • ~/.bash_logout
  • /etc/bash.bash_logout
  • ~/logout

if the files exists.

Management

Test

In a script, you can test if the shell is a login shell with this predicate.

argv[0][0] == '-'





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