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Quote:

Originally Posted by jgt

Replace the shell in /etc/passwd with the name of the script.
Make sure that the script contains all the required path statements etc.

Also, if all the environment variables will be the same for all users, you can put

Code:

source /etc/env_vars.sh

Right?
If the above was correct then I guess if the user needs different vars, the sysadmin could put

Code:

source ~/.env_vars

in the script and do a

Code:

chown root /path/.env_vars # and a
chmod 755 /path/.env_vars

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