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November 10, 2000 at 09:09 AM
rgrowcock

System Variables for local users

by rgrowcock . Updated 25 years, 7 months ago

Does anyone know if it is possible in NT 4.0 to set system variables by the administrator that will automatically update for any new user that logs on? I had tried using the %USERNAME%, but that does not set the variable on the path, it only shows %USERNAME% instead of the person’s name that is logged in. The local user can then append what is needed to the path, but if he closes the DOS window, the system resets and loses the appended statements.
I am trying to do this to alleviate theneed of having the local user reset everything everyday. And if a new use should take that machine over, if would update automatically.
I should also mention that the %username% variable does work for CLASSPATH, just not the PATH variable. Please help oh great NT Wizard. My humble thanks before hand.

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