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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!world!news.bu.edu!usenet From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: SU's or TCSH's behavior (bug?) Date: 9 Jan 1996 17:26:05 GMT Organization: Boston University Lines: 6 Sender: mi@aldan.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Message-ID: <4cu8fd$54l@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-71-4.bu.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 $user is not set by `su'-command. Tcsh does not change a prompt to root (or whatever the new user is), `mail' attempts to read the original user's mailbox, while `elm' works as I'd expect... -mi