different shells

[Stephen Waters]

so, you could mount this directory, do perl script, and do an NT equiv
of shutdown -r now if shell= was incorrect or continue login process if
everything is ok.

-stephen

Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:
> 
> Actually, we have perl-win32 loaded on a samba share (\\population\perl),
> and it works fine for each NT machine to run perl scripts; that keeps us
> from having to install perl on each pc.  Also, perl's include structure is
> flexible enough that it finds installed modules in the same hierarchy -
> very clean.
> 
> Cheers-
> Andy
> 
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> 
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Stephen Waters wrote:
> 
> > Joel Miles wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, with some REALLY complex scripting, you might be able to accomplish
> > > > that.  You know, parse win.ini, check to see what the value of the SHELL
> > > > line is, compare that to what it should be for that user.  If it's
> > > > different, replace it and reboot, if it's the same, then just log them in.
> > > > Greg
> > >
> > > Do you know where I could get some help in writing this (also, what language
> > > would I use, Perl?)?
> >
> > if you have perl for win32 on all of your workstations, this might be
> > workable. otherwise, you should probably use a .bat file with some
> > decent text manipulation utilites (kind of a "cat win.ini |grep shell"
> > bash comparison thing), though i'm not a .bat genius.
> >
> > just a thought,
> >
> > -stephen
> >