topic Re: Creating a User in Operating System - HP-UX

Creating a User

Daniel Wajsman — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:40:15 GMT

Hello.
What do I have to do to create a read-only profile user.I cant remember the command.
Thanks

Re: Creating a User

Francois Bariselle_3 — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:43:28 GMT

Hi,

Create a user, and change the permissions of the .profile to read only.

Frank.

Re: Creating a User

Jupiracy — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:09:02 GMT

after create user, you can use the follwing command.

chmod 444 /home/name_user/.profile

use chown for change owner of .profile

Re: Creating a User

Deepak Extross — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:23:29 GMT

Remember that since the .profile exists in the users home directory, the user can always replace the .profile with his own!!
A better way to do this would be to set the environment variables in the /etc/profile as READONLY variables, so that the user's .profile cannot overwrite them.