From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The following in /etc/profile fails in ksh, because EUID is non-existent. "/etc/profile[17]: [: argument expected" if [ $EUID = 0 ]; then # do something with the path fi In FC3, instead of $EUID was used: `id -u` The package changelog says that * Sat Apr 16 2005 Bill Nottingham <notting> 2.5.41-1 - get rid of 'id' error messages if there is no /usr (#142707) But replacing it with a bash-ism is no solution either ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): setup-2.5.44-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Give a user ksh as login shell 2.Let him login 3. Actual Results: /etc/profile[17]: [: argument expected Expected Results: No errors during login. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160731 ***