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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:17:02 -0400
From:	"Spencer Bailey" <spencerbaily AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Running two different profiles based on user loggin
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There a 50+ users and the two profiles can change on a monthly basis.
I don't want to have to maintain all the .profiles in users
directories.

Thanks



On 10/12/07, Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com> wrote:
> Spencer Bailey wrote:
> >
> > I've created two different profiles in /etc. profile.1 and profile.2
> > which both contain different aliases etc. Based on the user logging in
> > I want to be able to run the correct profile.
> >
> > Is it possible to put in a check in the /etc/profile that is a certain
> > user logs in to run the profile. Like...
> >
> > ---check for user "fred". If equal to fred
> > . /etc/profile.1
> >
> > otherwise
> >
> > . /etc/profile.2
>
> Unless you have many users and a nearly even split of users needing one
> profile over another, this is better handled in one of the per-user
> profiles:
>
>        ~/.profile
>        ~/.bash_profile
>        ~/.bashrc
>
> The differences among these are subtle, but it's a topic for a generic
> Unix forum.
>
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