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- From: jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Login, modem, and alias questions
- Keywords: login,alias,modem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.224706.27913@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:47:06 GMT
- References: <lfh1q3INNi07@notrees.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Nov07.015318.187943@jrh.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov07.015318.187943@jrh.uucp> jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton) writes:
- > Login is a program called by the getty program to authenticate a user
- > logging into the system and to initialize a new enviroment for them to
- > use during the session. It is is not meant to be run from the command
- > line. Don't run it ... this is not a bug.
-
- Login is a part of TSM which is a program that pretends to be both
- getty and login.
-
- Running login on the command line shouldn't hang the terminal, although
- it isn't a good idea. If you want to "login" on an open line, you should
- "exec" login, as in
-
- $ exec login jfh
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