Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I need to run a script whenever a user logs in to HP-UX unix server.
Please let me know how can i implement this.

I need to run this script on login for all users starting with 'X' ( x110,x112,x13545, etc).

Thanks a lot.

You can put the script to execute on: /etc/profile, because this file is loaded whenever a user logs and it would be something like:

Code:

specialUser=`echo "${USER}" | egrep -ic '^X'`
if [ ${specialUser} -ne 0 ]
then
      # Put your process here!
      echo "User starts with: [X|x]"
fi

I hope it helps!

We implement something in a way to keep /etc/profile relatively close to the supplied original. Based on the primary group, we then call a profile:-

Code:

GROUP=`id -g -n`

if [ -f /usr/local/bin/${GROUP}.start ]
then
  . /usr/local/bin/${GROUP}.start
fi

Using this, you can segragate users. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to get it to work down a list of secondary groups if that's better, e.g. if you have a dba group and a security group then you might want a user with both to get all the settings for both.


I hope that this helps


Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn