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su to user mesg: cannot change mode

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unixac

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After I log in as root, I su XXXXX (XXX is the name of my ser account),I receive an error "mesg: cannot change mode". What does this error mean? The .login for this user is correct and environment variables look correct. Thank you.
 
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We were able to find the cause of the message. in the root directory the file .cshrc contained an entry like
mesg y
We took that out and don't get the message anymore.
 
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