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From: venta@i2ack.sublink.org (Paolo Ventafridda)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Automatic login script execution
Message-ID: <1536@i2ack.sublink.org>
Date: 12 Apr 90 20:46:44 GMT
References: <4147@uceng.UC.EDU> <780@barsoom.nhh.no> <40193@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: venta@i2ack.sublink.ORG (Paolo Ventafridda)
Organization: Sublink Network, Milano - Italy
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>In article <780@barsoom.nhh.no> tholo@barsoom.nhh.no (Thorsten Lockert) writes:
>>schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) writes:
>>>Can anyone point me to a login.c replacement which causes a global
>>>.login file to be executed first? I assume I would place a "source ~/.login"
>>>as the last line of this global file.
>>

What's wrong with putting a custom program in place of /bin/sh (or
whatever) inside /etc/passwd ?
All this program has to do is executing the shell as usual, at the
end of its job. Am i missing the point? Sorry if so.

Paolo



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