Question about uid check in csh's source command

[David Herron, NPR Lover]

In article <2098 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>I guess I should just be able to add another call to srccat to read in
>/usr/lib/csh.login or something like that.  Reading a bit further into the
>code you find out that srccat won't source a file unless it has the same
>uid or gid as you do.  This I don't understand; why should it care?

Roy,

  It would be a security hole to have a persons .login owned by another
user id.  (This other user would always be able to have access to that
one user id).

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