diff --git a/build/run.sh b/build/run.sh
index c3d5137..a88a464 100644
--- a/build/run.sh
+++ b/build/run.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ pip3 install black
 
 echo chown -Rv $UID_TO_ADD:$GID_TO_ADD /home/user
 chown -Rv $UID_TO_ADD:$GID_TO_ADD /home/user
+chsh --shell $(which zsh) $USERNAME_TO_ADD
 
 sudo \
     --set-home \
diff --git a/build/user.sh b/build/user.sh
index b824986..1d8d0ac 100644
--- a/build/user.sh
+++ b/build/user.sh
@@ -19,13 +19,21 @@ export ZSH="$HOME/.zsh"
 bash /tmp/installomz.sh --unattended --keep-zshrc
 
 # vim-plug
-curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
-    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
+# this should happen from vimrc
+#curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
+#    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
 
 # link in ssh key from original home
 mkdir -p ~/.ssh
 ln -s ~/.home/.ssh/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa
 ln -s ~/.home/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
 
+# install pyenv
+git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
+# FIXME install a python version
+
+git clone https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm.git ~/.nvm
+# FIXME install an nvm version
+
 # move this to runtime FIXME
 #DEVDIR="$( cd ~/.home/dev >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd -P)"
diff --git a/root/etc/service/runtime-setup-user/run b/root/etc/service/runtime-setup-user/run
index 31ddd05..03ce346 100644
--- a/root/etc/service/runtime-setup-user/run
+++ b/root/etc/service/runtime-setup-user/run
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ if [[ -e "$HD/.setupdone" ]]; then
     exit
 fi
 
-sudo -l -u $UN /bin/bash << EOF
-    echo "user setup done" > ~/.setupdone
-EOF
+sudo \
+    --set-home \
+    --non-interactive \
+    -u $UN \
+    bash ./usersetup.sh && \
+sudo \
+    --set-home \
+    --non-interactive \
+    -u $UN \
+    touch $HD/.setupdone
+
diff --git a/root/etc/service/runtime-setup-user/usersetup.sh b/root/etc/service/runtime-setup-user/usersetup.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..42c3de1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/etc/service/runtime-setup-user/usersetup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [[ -e ~/.home/Documents/scratch/dev ]]; then
+    ln -s ~/.home/Documents/scratch/dev ~/dev
+else
+    ln -s ~/.home/dev ~/dev
+fi
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.aliases.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.aliases.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b276bc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.aliases.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+alias unsafessh="ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no"
+alias prettier="prettier --tab-width 4"
+alias gencapkey="ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa -b 2048 -C \"caprover\" -f ./key -q -N \"\""
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.editor.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.editor.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1acad9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.editor.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+export EDITOR=vim
+
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.gopath.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.gopath.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f24f559
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.gopath.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+export GOPATH="$HOME/dev/go"
+
+if [[ -d /usr/local/go/bin ]]; then
+    export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin"
+fi
+
+if [[ -d "$GOPATH/bin" ]]; then
+    export PATH="$PATH:$GOPATH/bin"
+fi
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.path.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.path.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1e1c71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.path.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+if [[ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ]]; then
+    export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"
+fi
+
+if [[ -d "$HOME/bin" ]]; then
+    export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"
+fi
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.spyware.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.spyware.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2a0c768
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/100.spyware.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
+export GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1
+export STNOUPGRADE=1
+export DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1
+export SAM_CLI_TELEMETRY=0
+export AZURE_CORE_COLLECT_TELEMETRY=0
+export DO_NOT_TRACK=1
+if command -v gcloud >/dev/null 2>&1 >/dev/null ; then
+    gcloud config set disable_usage_reporting true >/dev/null 2>&1 
+fi
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/200.gitconfig.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/200.gitconfig.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2d7692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/200.gitconfig.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+git config --global push.default matching
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/200.pyenv.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/200.pyenv.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99e56b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/200.pyenv.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
+export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
+
+if which pyenv 2>&1 > /dev/null ; then
+    eval "$(pyenv init -)"
+fi
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/300.nvm.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/300.nvm.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6320b5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/300.nvm.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+export NVM_DIR="~/.nvm"
+
+if [[ -e "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ]]; then
+    source "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
+fi
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.bash-history.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.bash-history.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de67ceb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.bash-history.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
+
+HISTSIZE=10000
+# Save 2,000,000 lines of history to disk (will have to grep ~/.bash_history for full listing)
+HISTFILESIZE=2000000
+# Append to history instead of overwrite
+shopt -s histappend
+# Ignore redundant or space commands
+HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
+# Ignore more
+HISTIGNORE='ls:ll:ls -alh:pwd:clear:history'
+# Set time format
+HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '
+# Multiple commands on one line show up as a single line
+shopt -s cmdhist
+# Append new history lines, clear the history list, re-read the history list, print prompt.
+export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
+
+fi
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.kubectl.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.kubectl.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8b0893
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.kubectl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
+    if which kubectl 2>&1 > /dev/null ; then
+        source <(kubectl completion bash)
+    fi
+
+    alias k=kubectl
+    complete -F __start_kubectl k
+fi
diff --git a/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.zsh-git-prompt.sh b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.zsh-git-prompt.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..feee7b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.local/profile.d/999.zsh-git-prompt.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+ZGP="$HOME/Library/Homebrew/opt/zsh-git-prompt/zshrc.sh"
+if [ -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then
+    if [[ -e "$ZGP" ]]; then
+        source "$ZGP"
+    fi
+    export PROMPT='%m:%~ $(git_super_status)$ '
+fi
+
+
diff --git a/root/home/user/.zshrc b/root/home/user/.zshrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34be52a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/root/home/user/.zshrc
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+# If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH.
+# export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
+
+# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
+export ZSH="/home/user/.zsh"
+
+# Set name of the theme to load --- if set to "random", it will
+# load a random theme each time oh-my-zsh is loaded, in which case,
+# to know which specific one was loaded, run: echo $RANDOM_THEME
+# See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes
+ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"
+
+# Set list of themes to pick from when loading at random
+# Setting this variable when ZSH_THEME=random will cause zsh to load
+# a theme from this variable instead of looking in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
+# If set to an empty array, this variable will have no effect.
+# ZSH_THEME_RANDOM_CANDIDATES=( "robbyrussell" "agnoster" )
+
+# Uncomment the following line to use case-sensitive completion.
+# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to use hyphen-insensitive completion.
+# Case-sensitive completion must be off. _ and - will be interchangeable.
+# HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
+# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to automatically update without prompting.
+# DISABLE_UPDATE_PROMPT="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to change how often to auto-update (in days).
+# export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=13
+
+# Uncomment the following line if pasting URLs and other text is messed up.
+# DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS=true
+
+# Uncomment the following line to disable colors in ls.
+# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to disable auto-setting terminal title.
+# DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
+# ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
+# COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line if you want to disable marking untracked files
+# under VCS as dirty. This makes repository status check for large repositories
+# much, much faster.
+# DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="true"
+
+# Uncomment the following line if you want to change the command execution time
+# stamp shown in the history command output.
+# You can set one of the optional three formats:
+# "mm/dd/yyyy"|"dd.mm.yyyy"|"yyyy-mm-dd"
+# or set a custom format using the strftime function format specifications,
+# see 'man strftime' for details.
+# HIST_STAMPS="mm/dd/yyyy"
+
+# Would you like to use another custom folder than $ZSH/custom?
+# ZSH_CUSTOM=/path/to/new-custom-folder
+
+# Which plugins would you like to load?
+# Standard plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*
+# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
+# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
+# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
+plugins=(git)
+
+source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
+
+# User configuration
+
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+export EDITOR=vim
+
+for FN in ~/.local/profile.d/*.sh ; do
+    source "$FN"
+done
+
+# Compilation flags
+# export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
+
+# Set personal aliases, overriding those provided by oh-my-zsh libs,
+# plugins, and themes. Aliases can be placed here, though oh-my-zsh
+# users are encouraged to define aliases within the ZSH_CUSTOM folder.
+# For a full list of active aliases, run `alias`.
+#
+# Example aliases
+# alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc"
+# alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"