Run command on startup for one user

Question

I made a new user on my server. The user is not logged into the bash shell on startup. To do this I can run /bin/bash --login and it works.

Where do I place this command so that it runs automatically? I tried ~/.bashlogin', ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc. When I go back to login I see the user logging in, but the shell does looks like a shell without login. E.g.,

user@computer:~/path$
$
$
$

instead of

user@computer:~/path
user@computer:~/path
user@computer:~/path

How to run the command /bin/bash --login without doing it yourself?

Answer 1

If I understand your problem correctly, you created a new user, but when logging in with that user, you get some other shell, but not bash. If this is your problem, then the solution is to change the shell of that new user to /bin/bash. This can be achieved with

usermod -s /bin/bash user

Answer 2

I can run the /bin/bash --login command when I place it as the first line of the ~/.profile file. I had another line that set the path variable (i.e., PATH = "blablablabla"; export PATH) and somehow that conflicted.

Now I am logged into the shell with the new user. Thanks for the help.

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