Re: setting global environmental variables

Bill Marcum <bmarcum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm trying to set an environmental variable for all the users. For
users with a shell I added a little line in /etc/bashrc. However for
users without a shell this doesn't work (I'm thinking the apache user
as well as the ftp and mail users). Is there someway to set an
environmental variable for all of these users with a shell of
/bin/false.

Try /etc/environment.

There is an /etc/environment on my Debian system, but none on my RedHat
system. It seems to be specific to certain distributions.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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