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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers User Shell script Post 12837 by LivinFree on Tuesday 8th of January 2002 03:31:52 AM
Old 01-08-2002
Or you could do something like this:
At the very end of their login file (.profile for sh and ksh, .bash_profile for bash, or .login for csh), put a line:
exec /path/to/your/menu

This replaces their current shell with your menu, so when they leave the menu, it is treated as if their shell.

Make sure to put "trap"'s in your script, so the users can't break out...
Check the man page for whatever shell you're using for trap syntax.
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.10 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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