wsl.exe <cmd> doesn't run shell or profile scripts #6250

Spongman · 2020-11-17T19:32:19Z

Spongman
Nov 17, 2020

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.610]
Your Distribution version: Centos7
Whether the issue is on WSL 2 and/or WSL 1: Linux version 4.19.128-microsoft-standard (oe-user@oe-host) (gcc version 8.2.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 23 12:58:10 UTC 2020

Steps to reproduce

wsl.exe htop

wsl is running the bare command without running the user's login shell. this means that the user's profile / rc scripts are not run and the environment is not correctly configured.

i have scripts in my .bashrc for enabling packages installed in /opt/rh. not running these causes everything to break. for example, vscode remote can't run properly because it can't find git, which is enabled by these scripts.

sshd, for example uses the user's login shell to run commands causing the environment to be correctly configured. wsl should do the same.

here's wsl.exe env :

HELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
WSLENV=
USER=user
NAME=machine
WSL_DISTRO_NAME=CentOS7
HOSTTYPE=x86_64
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:<rest of windows path>
PWD=/mnt/c/Users/User
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
WSL_INTEROP=/run/WSL/20099_interop
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/user
LOGNAME=user
_=/usr/bin/env

where is it even getting /usr/local/games from? that's not in my PATH anywhere...