Changing Users Default Env variables at creation

jmc1987 · 12-17-2012, 01:28 AM

Okay Thanks for helping me for starters. I just installed postfix and dovecot on my CentOS 6 Server and got it configured to use system users. Now I also got the default mail dir

$HOME/Maildir

So what I am trying to figure out is how would I stop the /var/spool/mail file from creating and changed the users default MAIL variable to $HOME/Maildir

Now I changed the MAIL variable by editing /etc/skel/.bash_profile and adding these 2 lines.

Quote:

MAIL=$HOME/Maildir
export MAIL

And I added another file to /etc/skel/Maildir with permissions 0700

Now I think there is another way to achieve this and would like some suggestions.

Thanks again

unSpawn · 01-13-2013, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmc1987

(..) how would I stop the /var/spool/mail file from creating and changed the users default MAIL variable to $HOME/Maildir

I don't understand that unless you mean "changing from something else to $HOME/Maildir".

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmc1987

Now I changed the MAIL variable by editing /etc/skel/.bash_profile and adding these 2 lines.
And I added another file to /etc/skel/Maildir with permissions 0700

/etc/skel/ files are dumped in the users account on account creation which means they'll be subject to any change the user makes (also note ~/.bash_profile won't be read if BaSH is invoked as "/bin/sh" but instead ~/.profile). For BaSH and Bourne Shell variables are read from the /etc/profile.d/ directory (see /etc/profile) so you should be able to get away by setting

Code:

echo 'MAIL="${HOME}/Maildir"; export MAIL' > /etc/profile.d/maildir.sh

just once.

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