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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Limiting a user to a script upon login, nothing else. Post 302385261 by tlarkin on Thursday 7th of January 2010 02:56:57 PM
Old 01-07-2010
All of my *nix work in the past 5 years has been on the Apple platform so I am really loving launchd for this exact sort of thing, however, /etc/init.d should be able to do lots of similar things. So you would want to put your script in /etc/init.d/myscript but I am not quite sure how to make it user specific. In debain do they have any init.d run level stuff in a user's home folder?

The only other thing I can think of, is edit that user's bash profile (.profile, .bashrc, or whatever it is in Debian) to execute that script as part of the bash start up (or whatever shell you are using) that way when they ssh into the server it will auto execute at their user level.
 

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init-checkconf

init-checkconf(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 init-checkconf(8)

NAME

       init-checkconf - manual page for init-checkconf

SYNOPSIS

       init-checkconf [OPTIONS] file

       init-checkconf [OPTIONS] -f file

DESCRIPTION

       Determine if specified Upstart init(8) job configuration file is valid.

       By default, two checks are performed:

       o   Ensure Upstart can parse overall file successfully

       o   Ensure all script sections are parseable by shell

OPTIONS

       -d , --debug
	      Show some debug output.

       -f file , --file=file
	      Specify job configuration file to check.

       -i path , --initctl-path=path
	      Specify path to initctl(8) binary.

       -s , --noscript
	      Do not check script sections.

       -x path , --upstart-path=path
	      Specify path to init(8) binary.

       -h , --help
	      Display usage statement.

AUTHOR

       Written by James Hunt <james.hunt@ubuntu.com>

LIMITATIONS

       o   This program will not run as the root user.

       o   It is not possible for a user to run multiple simultaneous instances of this program.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs at <https://launchpad.net/upstart/+bugs>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Canonical Ltd.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       sh(1) init(5) init(8)

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