02-E.16.2: System Wide User Profiles: The /etc/profile.d Directory
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/etc/profile.d
This directory contains files configuring system-wide behavior of specific programs and site-specific environment customization. As seen previously, these scripts are run from the /etc/profile script.
This would be where the administrator can place customization scripts of their own.
Depending on which distribution of Linux you are using, you will find a variety of files in this directory.
pbmac@pbmac-server $ ls -la /etc/profile.d
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 1 15:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 219 root root 16384 Jun 4 13:11 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 Jun 1 15:06 01-locale-fix.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Apr 15 2014 appmenu-qt5.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 824 Jun 1 15:06 apps-bin-path.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 664 Jun 1 15:06 bash_completion.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1003 Jun 1 15:06 cedilla-portuguese.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 813 Feb 13 07:30 flatpak.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 652 Apr 3 2019 input-method-config.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 385 Aug 27 2018 kaltura-base.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108 Dec 23 2017 sysstat.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1941 Jun 1 15:06 vte-2.91.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1947 Jun 1 14:18 vte.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954 Jun 1 15:06 xdg_dirs_desktop_session.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1557 Apr 14 2016 Z97-byobu.sh
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