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From: madd@adt.UUCP (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SGI 'su'
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Date: 14 Mar 89 18:21:09 GMT
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I would appreciate it very, very much if someone would fix 'su' so it
properly reads the destination user's shell configuration files.  I'm
about to hack one together but I really shouldn't have to do that.

This is very important to me since our root .cshrc properly sets the
prompt to the hash mark, but this is never called when su'ing.  If you
forget, or if someone walks up, you or they will unknowingly be root.
This is of course very dangerous even if security isn't an issue.

jim frost
associative design technology
madd@bu-it.bu.edu