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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:17:33 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling.
Message-ID:  <19970915121733.25438@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709150245.TAA12720@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 02:45:53AM %2B0000
References:  <199709150200.DAA28083@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <199709150245.TAA12720@usr09.primenet.com>

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On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 02:45:53AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>>> I don't understand why login should ever be called interactively.  We
>>> have su for that.
>>
>> Perhaps 0500 permissions are in order.
>
> Ugh.  Why not make it work as documented, instead?

Because it requires changing every shell.  Most are ports.

Greg



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