1. Put multihome in your path 2. Depending on your shell, put the following at the top of its initialization file. CSH (.cshrc): if ( -f ~/bin/multihome ) then # Destroy environment env -i # Resassign HOME eval `~/bin/multihome` if ( -d $HOME ) then cd $HOME endif source ~/.cshrc endif BASH (.bash_profile): if [ -f ~/bin/multihome ]; then # Destroy environment env -i # Resassign HOME eval `~/bin/multihome` if [ -d "$HOME" ]; then cd $HOME fi source ~/.bash_profile fi