UNIX System administration: Customizing user accounts

After learning this chapter, you will be able to do the following things:

Lists the configuration files read during the logon process

Change the Default User path

Change the default User terminal type

Change the user prompt

Change user command line editor

change user Default Printer

Manage default Profiles in Skel

Why custom user accounts

Set User terminal type

Customizing the user prompt

Set user default terminals, customizing user path variables

Define a command line editor

If you simply create entries in passwd and/etc/group files, you may not be able to meet all your needs, such as:

You may need to define the user's terminal type so that the application can be correctly exported to the user's screen.

You may need to customize the user's prompt. Because many users like to display their current path name in the prompt

Although the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13879.html "> system administrator defines a system default printer, some users may require a different printer.

If users want to use Third-party software, you may need to modify their path variables so that the shell can find those applications.

If users want to use command line editing and command history mechanisms, special configurations are required. You may want to configure these features for new users.

Some examples

Export term= ' vt100 '

Export ps1= ' $PWD $ '

Export lpdest= ' laser '

Export path= $PATH:/usr/local/bin

Export Editor=vi

Export histsize=40

Export Histfile=~/.sh_history