Inside Solaris™ 9

Customizing User Initialization Files

When a user logs in to a system, the shell initialization files determine the work environment. The shell startup scripts can be modified to set environment variables and directory paths needed by a specific user. These startup scripts are located in the user’s home directory.

When you are setting up user initialization files, it might be important to allow the users to customize their own initialization files. This can be accomplished with centrally located and globally distributed user initialization files called site initialization files. These files let you continually introduce new functionality to all of the user work environments by editing one initialization file. The local initialization file, ...