Re: Linux profile - a little offtopic

Hi
. profile and its associates for the other shells need only be read only for the user. It is common behavior on a production server to have the majority of users profiles linked to a central profile file so it is only editable by the System Admin. This keeps a potential security hole at bay by not allowing users access to the .profiles or whatever you use for the user shell.

If the changes to .profile are not changing your shell then you are using a different shell. On Linux you will be almost certainly using bash by default so you will need to put changes in .bashrc or maybe .bash_profile

HTH
Peter

At 08:55 PM 1/07/2001 -0800, you wrote:

>Kimberly,
>
>Since .profile is of little use unless sourced,
>why make it executable?
>
>Maybe I missed something here, but I've never used
>an executable .profile.
>
>Jared
>
>On Sunday 01 July 2001 11:15, Kimberly Smith wrote:
> > Also, make sure the .profile is executable. It isn't by default
> > usually. Also make sure the oracle account is setup to use a shell
> > that the .profile actually applies to. For example, ksh (my personal
> > favoriate). C shell uses the .login.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 10:20 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> > On June 30, 2001 01:30 pm, Csillag Zsolt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Since I'd like to install Oracle for Linux, I need to change the
> > > profile for user 'oracle'.
> > >
> > > I edited the .profile file located in /home/oracle folder but it
> > > seems to me that this isn't the file that Linux loads at startup.
> >
> > Take a look at /etc/profile - this is the default system-wide user
> > profile (be aware that all changes to this file will affect all
> > non-root users on the system).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > GC
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