Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!mike
From: mike@ists (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 4bsd .login and .cshrc
Message-ID: <176@ists>
Date: 29 Mar 88 02:23:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: ists.176
Posted: Mon Mar 28 21:23:59 1988
References: <326@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <7765@apple.Apple.Com> <27717@linus.UUCP> <3126@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: I.S.T.S.
Lines: 23

In article <3126@csli.STANFORD.EDU>, gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) writes:
| In article <27@denali.UUCP| crkarish@stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
| >Csh behaves differently on some SysV systems.  AIX doesn't source
| >.cshrc on an su.
| 
| Yes, HPUX doesn't read cshrc, either. Or, I should say - it reads your
| .cshrc, and doesn't care about the new user's .cshrc. It even takes
| HOME and the other environment variables just from the parent process,
| so simple "cd" brings you back into *YOUR* home directory, not into
| the directory of the user to su'ed to.

Same with most SysV's.  But and interesting bsd feature (?) is that it
will only source the .login if the user logging in owns that file.  For
example, if I'm logging in as mike, and ~mike/.login is owned by root,
the ~mike/.login will not be executed.



-- 
Mike Clarkson						mike@ists.UUCP
Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
York University, North York, Ontario,
CANADA M3J 1P3						(416) 736-5611