Group permission -- some more

[Ben Li]

Thanks for all the replies. I'm using the HP-UX 10.20 now.
I make a symbolic /etc/logingroup to /etc/group. It works fine after I login. But It has another problem. When I login it dosn't read my .profile, is there anyway to make the system to read the file after add the logingroup symbolic?

Thanks,

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

have you checked the file permissions of your .profile ?
Has it read access to the user/group ?
Have you the right shell in your /etc/passwd ?
.profile is only read by /sbin/sh, /binn/sh or /usr/bin/ksh

Regards

Andrew

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Are you using a workstation? If so, you're probably running CDE which is a 'special' environment, so starting a terminal window always bypasses normal Unix login profiles. There are a couple of steps (all tied into CDE). One is to edit .dtprofile and at the end of the file, change DTSOURCEPROFILE so it will read the .profile file.

The second change is to cause the terminal windows started in CDE to actually login (like a telnet sessioin would). To do this, set the Xwindow resource: *loginShell=true