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Solaris 9 and .profile

I have created a custom nologin shell named nologinksh that looks like this.

#!/bin/ksh

DATE=`date |sed 's/:.. .*//'`
LAST=`last -1 |grep "$LOGNAME.*$DATE"`
if [ "$LAST" ]; then
echo "Remote logon is not permitted."
else
export SHELL=/bin/ksh
. $HOME/.profile
/bin/ksh
fi

The shell is setup so that the user can't log directly into the server but the acount can be "su'd" to and pick up the accounts environment settings. The script sources the users .profile but ignores the aliases in the file. It picks up all the other environment settings except for the aliases. However, once logged in if I manually source the .profile the aliases are picked up. Is there something else I need to add to the script for it to pick up the aliases as well??..I have a similar script for the c-shell and that script is almost identical and it picks up the aliases...Any insight would be greatly appreciated...Thanks..
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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME
shells - shell database SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser- shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root. A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored. The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list. Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)). FILES
/etc/shells lists shells on system SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4) SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2001 shells(4)