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Subject: Re: Running two different profiles based on user loggin
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From: Markus E L <ls-cygwin-2006 AT m-e-leypold DOT de>
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")
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"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


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