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Old 8th September 2010
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Originally Posted by sputnik View Post

Also csh would read root's .cshrc. Does that mean csh is not secure as root shell?
Roots .cshrc is OK. What you do not want is to read .cshrc from your regular user account. My understanding was that he wants exactly that. To read all the environment of the regular user. I will admit that would make work more convenient but on the multi user system is just plain dangerous.
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