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Article #1711Re: System-wide .login?
From: Robert Claeson
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 13:18
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 13:18
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In a recent article guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>If not all shells support that notion, one thing you can do is have
>everybody's ".login" or ".profile" file source the global file, although
>those users may be allowed to edit or replace their ".login" or
>".profile" file and have it not do so, so you may not be able to
>guarantee that the global file will be executed.
Some sites force all their users to have a shell (commonly sh or ksh)
that reads a system global login file, and if they want csh or something
else, exec it from their .profile's.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cmcl2!uupsi!sunic!erbe.se!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: System-wide .login? Message-ID: <1990Nov5.131848.10040@erbe.se> Date: 5 Nov 90 13:18:48 GMT References: <24926@adm.BRL.MIL> <4239@auspex.auspex.com> Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden Lines: 17