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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
