How to set environment variable for everyone under

问题:

Can I have certain settings that are universal for all my users?

回答1:

As well as /etc/profile which others have mentioned, some Linux systems now use a directory /etc/profile.d/; any .sh files in there will be sourced by /etc/profile. It's slightly neater to keep your custom environment stuff in these files than to just edit /etc/profile.

回答2:

man 8 pam_env

man 5 pam_env.conf

If all login services use PAM, and all login services have session required pam_env.so in their respective /etc/pam.d/* configuration files, then all login sessions will have some environment variables set as specified in pam_env's configuration file.

On most modern Linux distributions, this is all there by default -- just add your desired global environment variables to /etc/security/pam_env.conf.

This works regardless of the user's shell, and works for graphical logins too (if xdm/kdm/gdm/entrance/… is set up like this).

回答3:

If your LinuxOS has this file:

/etc/environment

You can use it to permanently set environmental variables for all users.

Extracted from: http://www.sysadmit.com/2016/04/linux-variables-de-entorno-permanentes.html

回答4:

Amazingly, Unix and Linux do not actually have a place to set global environment variables. The best you can do is arrange for any specific shell to have a site-specific initialization.

If you put it in /etc/profile, that will take care of things for most posix-compatible shell users. This is probably "good enough" for non-critical purposes.

But anyone with a csh or tcsh shell won't see it, and I don't believe csh has a global initialization file.

回答5:

Some interesting excerpts from the bash manpage:

When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
...
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc.

So have a look at /etc/profile or /etc/bash.bashrc, these files are the right places for global settings. Put something like this in them to set up an environement variable:

export MY_VAR=xxx

回答6:

Using PAM is execellent.

# modify the display PAM
$ cat /etc/security/pam_env.conf 
# BEFORE: $ export DISPLAY=:0.0 && python /var/tmp/myproject/click.py &
# AFTER : $ python $abc/click.py &
DISPLAY  DEFAULT=${REMOTEHOST}:0.0 OVERRIDE=${DISPLAY}
abc   DEFAULT=/var/tmp/myproject

回答7:

Every process running under the Linux kernel receives its own, unique environment that it inherits from its parent. In this case, the parent will be either a shell itself (spawning a sub shell), or the 'login' program (on a typical system).

As each process' environment is protected, there is no way to 'inject' an environmental variable to every running process, so even if you modify the default shell .rc / profile, it won't go into effect until each process exits and reloads its start up settings.

Look in /etc/ to modify the default start up variables for any particular shell. Just realize that users can (and often do) change them in their individual settings.

Unix is designed to obey the user, within limits.

NB: Bash is not the only shell on your system. Pay careful attention to what the /bin/sh symbolic link actually points to. On many systems, this could actually be dash which is (by default, with no special invocation) POSIXLY correct. Therefore, you should take care to modify both defaults, or scripts that start with /bin/sh will not inherit your global defaults. Similarly, take care to avoid syntax that only bash understands when editing both, aka avoiding bashisms.

回答8:

If you are working on ubuntu type this command ~/.bashrc (if you are using gedit you could type gedit ~/.bashrc) then write the environment variable that you want to persist across all terminal sessions eg export variable="2015"

回答9:

1. Download jdk using wget
2. locate the java path using $which java it will show you where JAVA is actually stored i.e /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64//bin/java
3. Copy the above path i.e /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/
4. Now open the .bashrc using nano editor i.e nano .bashrc
5. Add the path in .bashrc file i.e JAVA_HOME using export cammand and save the file i.e export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/ and export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
6. Run $ source ~/.bashrc
7. $echo $PATH

Your Path is set