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changing environment variables

hi friends,
i'm new to shell scripting,can i know how to change the environment variables without altering anythng in .bash_profile as the change in it is for a specific user but i want the change to be available to every user who logs in.
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/etc/profile is normally the file to create system-wide (all processes that login have it ) environment variables.

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