System-wide .login?

[Robert Claeson]

In a recent article guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

>If not all shells support that notion, one thing you can do is have
>everybody's ".login" or ".profile" file source the global file, although
>those users may be allowed to edit or replace their ".login" or
>".profile" file and have it not do so, so you may not be able to
>guarantee that the global file will be executed. 

Some sites force all their users to have a shell (commonly sh or ksh)
that reads a system global login file, and if they want csh or something
else, exec it from their .profile's.

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