Where does PATH at login come from?

[Lars Henrik Mathiesen]

gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>Typically there are three possible sources for the initial PATH:
>	The shell itself will have some hard-wired default PATH.
>	A system-wide configuration file (/etc/profile, for example)
>	can reset the PATH, if the shell reads the configuration file.
>	Each user can have his own configuration file in his home
>	directory; names are usually .profile (sh) and .login (csh).

Four and five: login and init. On our system (Mt. Xinu 4.3), login
does create an initial environment with a PATH, while init doesn't.

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