Where does PATH at login come from?

[Gary Weimer]

In article <18613 at unix.SRI.COM> ric at ace.sri.com (Richard Steinberger) writes:
>When I log on to some of our BSD unix machines (Alliant, Multiflow,
>DEC 3100), I notice that the PATH variable has some initial members,
>usually something like (/usr/ucb /usr/bin /bin .).  Can anyone
>let me know where these initial elements of PATH come from?
>Is this at all configurable?  Thanks to any and all who reply.
>
>regards,
>
>	ric steinberger
>	ric at ace.sri.com