From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Shell Level...
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:44:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75e10412-9719-c950-a808-19bc0a101f5a@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200120194057.GI15860@mit.edu>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 730 bytes --]
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@ATHENA.MIT.EDU or tytso/admin@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.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
[-- Attachment #2: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature --]
[-- Type: application/pkcs7-signature, Size: 4013 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-21 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-19 21:22 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-19 23:21 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-20 8:15 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-20 8:39 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-01-21 20:42 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-20 19:40 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-20 23:51 ` Terry Jones
2020-01-21 20:44 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2020-01-21 23:10 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-20 23:55 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-21 20:46 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-01-21 23:39 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-20 23:43 ` Greg A. Woods
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=75e10412-9719-c950-a808-19bc0a101f5a@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net \
--to=tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org \
--cc=gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).