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Subject: please don't check mail for root logins
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 22:29:58 -0800
From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
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I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers.

In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root.  And
in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a
non-responding server, it hangs root logins.

Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machine B
to be up.

Rahul

P.S.  Patch on request, but it's too trivial to submit as one.


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