Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!island!daniel
From: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith - Hail Quayle? No Sale!)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Looking for .sig, or not
Message-ID: <392@island.uu.net>
Date: 8 Oct 88 23:17:19 GMT
References: <8043@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith - Hail Quayle? No Sale!)
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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In article <8043@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> randy@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Randy Orrison) writes:
>
>I let a couple friends use my account to read/post news.  Setting
>their HOME environment variable works great for everything, except
>.signature, which is always taken from my home directory.

	You're probably setting $HOME in .login, right?  You could
check the value of $HOME and use that to copy the correct .signature.user
to .signature.  Say I have two friends, gumby and pokey, that use
my account.  I would do this in my .login after $HOME is set:

	(note: $MYHOME is set to where an account starts, which for me
	is the value I'd get from:
	"grep daniel /etc/passwd | awk -F: ' { print $6 } '")

	(assuming standard csh .login sequence)

	switch ($HOME)
		case "gumby":
			cp $MYHOME/.signature.gumby $MYHOME/.signature
			breaksw
		case "pokey":
			cp $MYHOME/.signature.pokey $MYHOME/.signature
			breaksw
		default:
			cp $MYHOME/.signature.default $MYHOME/.signature
			breaksw
	endsw

	So now you don't have to worry about *where* the .signature
file is, and your friends can set up their own :-)

				dan
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