From john@wagoneers.com Sun Aug 11 00:44:53 2002 From: john the /etc/profile is where you are able to control all users. on some systems, ymmv, there is a /etc/path or /etc/PATH variable. here's a few samples, don't worry about the HP-UX part, most of this stuff works on both os's. john http://wagoneers.com/UNIX/SOLARIS/base.profile.txt http://wagoneers.com/UNIX/HP-UX/SETUP/Build/setup/etcprofile (look also at last directory, there is an /etc/PATH File too) http://wagoneers.com/UNIX/HP-UX/ksh-setup.html http://wagoneers.com/UNIX/HP-UX/CDE/dtterm-and-profile-ideas.html http://wagoneers.com/UNIX/HP-UX/CDE/dt_term_titles.html http://wagoneers.com/UNIX/HP-UX/sh-posix.html At 07:15 PM 8/7/2002 +0000, acunet3278 wrote: >Can you kindly share your experience with me? > >Where can more information about properly updating a users .profile >command be found? I need to update a users path to run scp, which is >a secure copy program from OpenSSH. > >Within any users .profile, what delimiter is used to separate path >commands? > >Example ... > >PATH=$PATH:/bin/ /usr/local/bin >export PATH > >On the same note, how can the path for all users be updated? > >Please advise. Thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- john@wagoneers.com http://www.wagoneers.com http://www.billygraham.org/spiritualhelp/steps.asp http://www.helpmewithbiblestudy.org/ http://www.freegift.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Will You Find True Love? Will You Meet the One? Free Love Reading by phone! http://us.click.yahoo.com/it_ffB/R_ZEAA/Ey.GAA/X1EolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/