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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: setting TERM on SYS Vr2
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 15:07:07 EST
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> Those users could have their .profile , then `exec' their
>  as the last statement.

That can be done - it's what we did before we fixed "login" to permit
you to set TERM and TZ directly.  However:

1) it's a kludge, the need for which can be obviated by a minor change
to "login";

2) it requires the system administrator to go through a song-and-dance
to set up their account ("No, Fred, you don't just set their "shell"
field to "/op/op/programs/shell", you leave it blank and stick the
following in their .profile...") - i.e., it renders the "shell" field
of the password file largely useless.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy