How do I Run Login Scripts on OpenBSD 4.4?

intermentals · 01-28-2010, 06:12 AM

I am trying to reverse engineer a server.

Upon login a script requests a prompt for the user to run one of 5 scripts (including rolling back to a previous backup and going to the shell).

I have located the scripts it prompts you to run in /opt/bin

My question is which file points to these scripts on login?

Thanks

TB0ne · 01-28-2010, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by intermentals

I am trying to reverse engineer a server.

Upon login a script requests a prompt for the user to run one of 5 scripts (including rolling back to a previous backup and going to the shell).

I have located the scripts it prompts you to run in /opt/bin

My question is which file points to these scripts on login?

Thanks

Is this for BSD or for Linux?? If you want something to run after the user logs in, put a command either in the users .profile (or .bash_profile), to execute. Or you can add it to the system-wide default profile, usually /etc/profile (may be different on your system, but it will be under /etc/ somewhere...).

intermentals · 01-29-2010, 04:30 AM

This is for BSD - where would I find the users .profile file please?

TB0ne · 01-29-2010, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by intermentals

This is for BSD - where would I find the users .profile file please?

In each of the users home directories. Every user has one, and in my opinion, I'd rather put something there, than in the system profile. In case things go sideways, I'd rather have some 'untouched' logins that don't try to do ANYTHING, except get me to a shell.

intermentals · 02-01-2010, 07:32 AM

Thank you very much

girarde · 02-01-2010, 05:21 PM

I am perplexed by the reference to /opt/bin. OpenBSD doesn't have that directory.

chort · 02-01-2010, 09:48 PM

OpenBSD also doesn't drop you into a menu system when you log in, so obviously it's a custom application.