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From: kg@hplabs.UUCP (Ken Greer)
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Subject: Re: How do I get my root id to run .login?
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 11:20:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 11:20:20 1983
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Csh specifically checks the owner (and group) of the file
and forbids sourceing it if it's not yours.  You'll have to change
the csh source if you want to bypass this check (...as I have done
with every BSD release.)   See the calls to srcunit in sh.c.
-- 
Ken Greer