On 8/8/07, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/9/07, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or you could programatically change each user's .profile. > > Uhm, why? Markus is correct that both /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile > are sourced when you log in so to set up global variables you set them > in /etc/profile.
~/.profile overrides /etc/profile. $ echo 'var1=a' >> /etc/profile $ echo 'var1=b' >> ~/.profile $ /bin/ksh -l $ echo $var1 b In this case, users' dot files will have be updated. DS
