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hii

How do i stop the .profile from loading when i login into a restricted
shell ( rksh )

peace

Why would you want to?  That's where you normally configure what his
restrictions are.

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Probably that's the point of the question, assuming "peace" is the
one who has to sit in the rksh.

The simple way would be to simply remove ~/.profile, or to do something
similar to

if [ "$SHELL" -eq "-rksh" ]
then
  echo .profile not loaded!
else
  # entire .profile goes here
fi

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Quote:> if [ "$SHELL" -eq "-rksh" ]

                ^^^
                 =   for string comparison; -eq would be numeric
                     comparison, and would always return true with two
                     strings...

Quote:> then
>   echo .profile not loaded!
> else
>   # entire .profile goes here
> fi

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I wish I had an answer for you. Sorry.

Quote:> Why would you want to?  That's where you normally configure what his
> restrictions are.

Because, normally, .profile is owned by the user, and thus the user
can change their own restrictions. It's better to use /etc/profile for
setting up global user restrictions (we have 50,000+ users, and tring
to update 50,000 .profiles would be a nightmare!).

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