X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running two different profiles based on user loggin References: <2478543e0710120356u3afffbcas42d41d1f7706fa79@mail.gmail.com> From: Markus E L Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:11:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <2478543e0710120356u3afffbcas42d41d1f7706fa79@mail.gmail.com> (Spencer Bailey's message of "Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:56:17 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com "Spencer Bailey" wrote: > Hi, > > 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 Generic Unix advice, untested, should work on cygwin AFAICS: if test "$USER" = fred; then . /etc/profile.1 else . /etc/profile.2 fi Regards - M -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/