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.



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