Running two different profiles based on user loggin

[Markus E L]

"Spencer Bailey" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've created two different profiles in /etc. profile.1 and profile.2
> which both contain different aliases etc. Based on the user logging in
> I want to be able to run the correct profile.
>
> Is it possible to put in a check in the /etc/profile that is a certain
> user logs in to run the profile. Like...
>
> ---check for user "fred". If equal to fred
> . /etc/profile.1
>
> otherwise
>
> . /etc/profile.2


Generic Unix advice, untested, should work on cygwin AFAICS:

if test "$USER" = fred; then
   . /etc/profile.1
else
   . /etc/profile.2
fi

Regards - M


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