Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> All of the above can be accomplished without messing with login and purely  
> by scripting, etc in the shell's rc file, or the system's global master  
> shell rc.

IF the user HAS a shell.

IF the user does NOT, the application which is run at login can also parse
the flags, say, pppd, etc.

--Michael