Login And Non-login Shells In Linux: What's The Difference?

[@RakeshShivayyaGuttedar]

Why do you need to distinguish the shells between login and non login shells in the first place?

[@meliora-e]

Knowing the difference can be helpful when you're using docker. Since docker's default shell is not a login shell, when RUN in a Dockerfile starts a non-login shell, it won't source ~/.bashrc automatically, so the following commands after RUN won't recognize the environment variables exported in the ~/.bashrc file, etc.

[@RakeshShivayyaGuttedar]

@@meliora-e thank you 😊

[@BarcaLS]

In 3:12 the should be "login shell", not "non login shell". Or am I wrong?

[@theurbanpenguin]

Yes, thank you, I corrected the subtitle but cant edit the vocal once it is uploaded

[@moniregar1]

This video was super useful, thank you so much!

[@theurbanpenguin]

Glad it was helpful!

[@twetew]

thank you