Y'know, this is a little bit late, and I certainly haven't followed the whole thread, but as an experienced sysadmin, my first question is why do you *need* to put the file in every user's home directory? Is it something that's going to be run at login, or is it something that everyone will be editing individually, or what?
Certainly, if it's the latter, you could actually send it out as an email, with instructions to save. If the former, it should *definitely* be effected through /etc/profile, which everyone sources every time they log in, regardless of shell. mark roth unemployed in Chicago -- Finally, a perfect understanding: George W. Bush is Eddie Haskell -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list