To Customize Shell Initialization Files for Users

1. In the System Administrator role, follow the procedure to customize user initialization files in the section "Setting Up User Accounts Task Map" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1.

   The procedure tells you how to create three shell-specific skeleton directory names that are entered into the Skeleton path field when creating a user. The procedure also tells you to copy the local.login file to the skelC subdirectory, the local.profile file to the skelK subdirectory and the local.login file to the skelB subdirectory.

2. Create a skelP subdirectory for users whose default shell is a profile shell.

3. Create a .profile file and copy it into the skelP directory.

   See "Customizing a User's Work Environment" in System Administration Guide, Volume 1 for a discussion of what to include in initialization files.

4. When creating user accounts or user templates, enter the appropriate skelX pathname into the Skeleton path field.