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Re: Running two different profiles based on user loggin
"Spencer Bailey" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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
Generic Unix advice, untested, should work on cygwin AFAICS:
if test "$USER" = fred; then
. /etc/profile.1
else
. /etc/profile.2
fi
Regards - M
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