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Stephen McCullough swm at swmcc.com
Wed Jul 11 10:18:20 IST 2001


On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:50:04AM +0100, Eamonn Shinners wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 	is it possible to set the starting point after login to somewhere other than
> the users home directory, and if so, what needs to be edited. I've had a
> quick look at the .bashrc and .bash_profile files, but it would seem to be
> not them.

Edit the /etc/passwd file.

foo:x:1000:1000:Joe Bloggs,,,;/home/foo:/bin/whatever
			      ---------

Also usermod -d does this.

Thanks,
		

-- 
Stephen McCullough			http://www.swmcc.com





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