topic Re: User profile in Operating System - Linux

User profile

peterchu — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:26:48 GMT

I use RH 8 now, I have a problem about the user login :
one of user is via rlogin to access the system ( not by telnet ), as I know all user login need to run the /etc/profile , is it possible to let the user not run the /etc/profile when login , but only run the user profile ? thx

Re: User profile

Stuart Browne — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:45:05 GMT

As far as I'm aware, no.

You either run profiles (all of them), or you don't.

By the same token, you can customize the user profile to remove options you don't want.

Re: User profile

Mark Grant — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:57:52 GMT

You can cheat of course. Put something like the following at the top of /etc/profile

[[ $LOGNAME = user ]] || {

# The rest of /etc/profile goes here

}

Note the "}" at the end of /etc/profile.

It's a bit of a nasty hack though and theres probably a better way to achieve what you want.

Re: User profile

Roberto Polli — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:25:27 GMT

try an empty /etc/profile ;-)

peace, r.

Re: User profile

Olivier Drouin — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:08:55 GMT

...or put the code you dont want to run in the specific user profiles...