Forcing actions at login

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <6153 at ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes:
>I would like to know the neatest way of forcing certain actions to
>be taken when a user logs in to the system.  For example, I would
>like to ensure everyone sees the global message of the day, or 
>perhaps get reniced if they're not a priority user on machine X.
>
>Is the recommended way to simply put the name of a script in the
>passwd file instead of /bin/csh (or whatever)?  I can't see any
>other alternative as the user has to own .login, but are there
>any ill side-effects from this action?


To my knowledge, /etc/cshrc is sourced by all occurences of csh.

 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr at jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341