On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:43:54PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/24/12 4:33 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > > I want the ability to "set the default path". That's all. Just so that > set it in /etc/profile then. that gets run on su -l $someuser Who says all my users run "/bin/sh" or "/bin/bash" as their shell? Do I need to need to handle /etc/csh.login? And what about non-standard shells? /etc/profile is a kludge; it's not a solution. A kludge may be all I can do. But... *sigh* -- rgds Stephen