On 8/8/07, Lars Hansson <romabysen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/9/07, Clint Pachl <pachl@ecentryx.com> wrote:
> > Or you could programatically change each user's .profile.
>
> Uhm, why? Markus is correct that both /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile
> are sourced when you log in so to set up global variables you set them
> in /etc/profile.

~/.profile overrides /etc/profile.

$ echo 'var1=a' >> /etc/profile
$ echo 'var1=b' >> ~/.profile
$ /bin/ksh -l
$ echo $var1
b

In this case, users' dot files will have be updated.

DS