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From: yedidya@bimacs.BITNET (Yedidya Israel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Forcing actions at login
Message-ID: <2876@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 17 Feb 91 06:07:34 GMT
References: <6153@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <446@minya.UUCP> <1991Jan10.191546.268@am.sublink.org> <449@minya.UUCP> <1991Jan16.000012.26467@l
Reply-To: yedidya@bimacs.UUCP (Yedidya Israel)
Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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In article <1991Jan22.185016.15252@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> cornutt@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (David Cornutt) writes:
>Heres an off-the-top-of-my-head suggestion; I havent actually
>tried this.  Create a directory (call it /usr/everyone) which is
>designated as the home directory in the passwd entries.  Make it
>owned by root (or other privileged uid) and writable to no one
>except the owner.  Put a .login and a .cshrc in there containing
>the things that you want everyone to have.  Then, have the .login,
>as the last thing that it does, source a script which looks up
>the users *real* home directory in a list somewhere, cds to it and
>sets the HOME variable to it, and then sources the users .login
>and .cshrc (if you want).  This way, the users can still have their
>personalized logins if you want to let them do that, and you dont
>have to cut off their write access to their own home directories.
>
>Possible problems with this approach:

[three of them deleted]

Add this one

4) "cd ~someone" will change directory to /usr/everyone (or what else
you call it).
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