Thanks to all those who replied to my original posting.
>
>
> Is there anyway to have the .cshrc owned by someone other than the
> user?
>
The idea was to have the users .cshrc owned by root or an
admin account. Having discovered that this is not possible
we will now look into the ways to achieve the result.
For those who are interested below are some off the
responses/suggestions from the net. Generally it was either
switch to tcsh or source a global .cshrc file from each
users .cshrc.
In article rgl@mail.fwi.uva.nl, casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
> mderu@fossa.navy.mil.nz (Mike deRuiter) writes:
>
> > Is there anyway to have the .cshrc owned by someone other than the
> > user?
>
> No. This is a security feature in the csh. (Prevents people with group/world
> writable home directories from getting a silly .cshrc. Why not do give
> all users a .cshrc that reads:
>
> source /the/global/Cshrc/file
>
> Casper
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In article 94Mar3110705@ab20.larc.nasa.gov, jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason C. Austin) writes:
> In article <CM2F1z.Csx@dswe.navy.mil.nz> mderu@fossa.navy.mil.nz (Mike deRuiter) writes:
>
> ->
> -> Is there anyway to have the .cshrc owned by someone other than the
> -> user?
> ->
>
> You can get a copy of tcsh which has a global .cshrc feature
> along with a lot of other excellent features. Preventing users from
> modifying their own cshrc file like you are trying to do is a bad
> idea.
> --
> Jason C. Austin
> j.c.austin@larc.nasa.gov
>
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>From Michal.Jankowski@fuw.edu.pl Fri Mar 4 09:13:37 1994
Mike> We would like to have a default .cshrc file for all our users
Mike> to set up a few network wide aliases which users cannot
Mike> edit/accidentally delete. Users will have the opportunity to
Mike> customize their own .mycshrc
Switch to tcsh.
It has support for global .cshrc and .login (usually called
/etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/csh.login) built-in.
IMHO, tcsh is much superior to csh - command-line editing, filename
completion, visual stepping through history list, more and more.
Michal
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>From amos%europa@europa.acs.unt.edu Tue Mar 8 12:11:10 1994
Mike> We would like to have a default .cshrc file for all our users to set
Mike> up a few network wide aliases which users cannot edit/accidentally
Mike> delete. Users will have the opportunity to customize their own
Mike> .mycshrc
You may have already received this suggestion, but have you looked into
tcsh? Tcsh is a csh compatible shell that reads the following upon
startup:
1. /etc/csh.cshrc (global .cshrc)
2. /etc/csh.login (global .login; for login shells only)
3. ~/.tcshrc (user shell setup)
4. ~/.cshrc (only if ~/.tcshrc wasn't found)
5. ~/.login (for login shells only)
This is what we're using and have been very pleased with the results.
Tcsh also allows using the arrow keys for command line editing, which
is much nicer for our users coming from the VMS environment.
Amos
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