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From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Forcing actions at login
Message-ID: <2690@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 24 Jan 91 15:47:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.023543.934@melb.bull.oz.au> <1991Jan22.185016.15252@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> <2679@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <1991Jan23.191016.20988@mp.cs.niu.edu> <8834@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
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In article <8834@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM writes:
>In article <1991Jan23.191016.20988@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>>In article <2679@wn1.sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
>>>
>>>You really should try these things before posting them.
>>>
>>>It won't work on most systems, as the C shell ignores .cshrc and
>>>.login files not owned by the effective uid, for security reasons.
>>>
>>
>>You really should try these things before posting them.
>>
>> Many versions of C shell will execute a .login file owned by root, even if
>>root is not the effective ID.
>
>     You both should look at the code before posting guesses as to what REALLY
>is happening.		[ Explanation of what is really happening deleted. ]

I disagree.

One should not have to look at the source, it's the vendor's
responsibility to make the source match the man page, especially
if he is selling a binary-only distribution.

In the case, the source should be changed to do what the man page says.

Neil, you are telling to me to try things out before posting, and you
didn't include the paragraph in my posting where I mentioned that Sun
got in wrong in SunOS 4.1.1.  How, exactly, do you think I found out?


Have a nice day,

hans Mulder	hansm@cs.kun.nl