09-24-2015
First off: RudiC and MicahelFelt are right having concerns: what you attempt to do sounds not worth doing and most probably a careful analysis of your original problem (not what you think is a solution to your problem) will reveal that it can be done much better some other way. I suggest to explore such a solution.
Having said this: there is a way to do as you want - very ugly, not to be suggested but it works, at least with AIX:
Create several different user accounts by copying the line with the original user in /etc/passwd. Leave everything the same, most importantly the user ID, but change the usernames and the home directories to something distinctive. Create the mentioned home directories and give them the same filemodes and ownerships. Now put one variation of the .profile in each of these directories. Depending on into which user you su you will get the respective profile executed.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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rcp(1c) rcp(1c)
Name
rcp - remote file copy
Syntax
rcp [ -p ] file1 file2
rcp [-r] [-p] file... directory
Description
The command copies files between machines. Each file or directory argument is either a remote file name of the form rhost:path, or a local
file name. Local file names do not contain colons (:) or backslashes () before colons.
Note that the command refuses to copy a file onto itself.
If path is not a full path name, it is interpreted relative to your login directory on rhost. To ensure that the metacharacters are inter-
preted remotely, a remote host's path can be quoted by either using a backslash () before a single character, or enclosing character
strings in double (") or single (') quotes.
The command does not prompt for passwords; your current local user name must exist on rhost and allow remote command execution via
The command handles third party copies, where neither source nor target files are on the current machine. Hostnames may also take the form
rname@rhost to use rname rather than the current user name on the remote host. The following example shows how to copy the file foo from
user1@mach1 to user2@mach2:
$ rcp user1@mach1:foo user2@mach2:foo
Note that the file .rhosts on mach2 in user2's account must include an entry for mach1 user1. Also note that it may be necessary for the
person implementing the command to be listed in the .rhosts file for mach1 user1.
By default, the mode and owner of file2 are preserved if file2 already exists. Otherwise, the mode of the source file modified by on the
destination host is used.
Options
-p Preserves the modification times and modes of the source files in its copies, ignoring the
-r Copies files in all subdirectories recursively, if the file to be copied is a directory. In this case the destination must be a
directory.
Restrictions
The command is confused by output generated by commands in a .cshrc file on the remote host. In particular, `where are you?' and `stty:
Can't assign requested address' are messages which can result if output is generated by the startup file.
See Also
ftp(1c), rlogin(1c), rsh(1c)
rcp(1c)