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Re: Running two different profiles based on user loggin


Spencer Bailey wrote:

I've created two different profiles in /etc. profile.1 and profile.2 which both contain different aliases etc. Based on the user logging in I want to be able to run the correct profile.

Is it possible to put in a check in the /etc/profile that is a certain
user logs in to run the profile. Like...

---check for user "fred". If equal to fred
. /etc/profile.1

otherwise

. /etc/profile.2

Unless you have many users and a nearly even split of users needing one profile over another, this is better handled in one of the per-user profiles:


	~/.profile
	~/.bash_profile
	~/.bashrc

The differences among these are subtle, but it's a topic for a generic Unix forum.

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