Forcing actions at login

[Yedidya Israel]

In article <1991Jan22.185016.15252 at freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> cornutt at freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (David Cornutt) writes:
>Heres an off-the-top-of-my-head suggestion; I havent actually
>tried this.  Create a directory (call it /usr/everyone) which is
>designated as the home directory in the passwd entries.  Make it
>owned by root (or other privileged uid) and writable to no one
>except the owner.  Put a .login and a .cshrc in there containing
>the things that you want everyone to have.  Then, have the .login,
>as the last thing that it does, source a script which looks up
>the users *real* home directory in a list somewhere, cds to it and
>sets the HOME variable to it, and then sources the users .login
>and .cshrc (if you want).  This way, the users can still have their
>personalized logins if you want to let them do that, and you dont
>have to cut off their write access to their own home directories.
>
>Possible problems with this approach:

[three of them deleted]

Add this one

4) "cd ~someone" will change directory to /usr/everyone (or what else
you call it).
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