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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Forcing actions at login
Summary: Simply replacing the passwd field can cause trouble with rsh
Keywords: csh login
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.043135.2095@research.canon.oz.au>
Date: 14 Jan 91 04:31:35 GMT
References: <6153@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1991Jan05.212116.2157@jpradley.jpr.com> <5082@auspex.auspex.com>
Sender: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
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We used to have a common start up script for csh users that would
eventually exec csh for them but ran into problems with rsh. We
changed over to having everyone run sh (which does run /etc/profile
on Sun's) and exec'ing csh if needed.

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Andrew Newman, Software Engineer.            | Net:   andy@research.canon.oz.au
Canon Information Systems Research Australia | Phone: +1 61 2 805 2914
P.O. Box 313 North Ryde, NSW, Australia 2113 | Fax:   +1 61 2 805 2929