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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers "Global" profiles? Post 91504 by blowtorch on Friday 2nd of December 2005 08:58:45 PM
Old 12-02-2005
There is a file in /etc called profile, which is executed for every user that logs in. From the man page of profile:
Quote:
profile(4) profile(4)

NAME
profile - set up user's environment at login time

DESCRIPTION
If the file /etc/profile exists, it is executed by the shell for every user who logs in. The file /etc/profile should be set up to do only those things that are desirable for every user on the system, or to set reasonable defaults. If a user's login (home) directory contains a file named .profile, that file is executed (via the shell's exec .profile) before the session begins. .profile files are useful for setting various environment parameters, setting terminal modes, or overriding some or all of the results of executing /etc/profile.
So you can set your variables in the /etc/profile, but they will be overridden if the user sets the same variables to some different value in his/her own .profile.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSX

aa-genprof

AA-GENPROF(8)							     AppArmor							     AA-GENPROF(8)

NAME

       aa-genprof - profile generation utility for AppArmor

SYNOPSIS

       aa-genprof <executable> [-d /path/to/profiles]

OPTIONS

       -d --dir /path/to/profiles

	  Specifies where to look for the AppArmor security profile set.
	  Defaults to /etc/apparmor.d.

DESCRIPTION

       When running aa-genprof, you must specify a program to profile.	If the specified program is not a fully-qualified path, aa-genprof will
       search $PATH in order to find the program.

       If a profile does not exist for the program, aa-genprof will create one using aa-autodep(1).

       Genprof will then:

	  - set the profile to complain mode

	  - write a mark to the system log

	  - instruct the user to start the application to
	    be profiled in another window and exercise its functionality

       It then presents the user with two options, (S)can system log for entries to add to profile and (F)inish.

       If the user selects (S)can or hits return, aa-genprof will parse the complain mode logs and iterate through generated violations using
       aa-logprof(1).

       After the user finishes selecting profile entries based on violations that were detected during the program execution, aa-genprof will
       reload the updated profiles in complain mode and again prompt the user for (S)can and (D)one. This cycle can then be repeated as necessary
       until all application functionality has been exercised without generating access violations.

       When the user eventually hits (F)inish, aa-genprof will set the main profile, and any other profiles that were generated, into enforce mode
       and exit.

BUGS

       If you find any bugs, please report them at <http://https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+filebug>.

SEE ALSO

       apparmor(7), apparmor.d(5), aa-enforce(1), aa-complain(1), aa-disable(1), aa_change_hat(2), aa-logprof(1), logprof.conf(5), and
       <http://wiki.apparmor.net>.

AppArmor 2.7.103						    2012-06-28							     AA-GENPROF(8)
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