From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 17 11:09:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05040 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:09:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05033 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 18555 invoked by uid 1017); 17 Jun 1998 17:06:19 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:06:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Ben Cohen cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with login? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is very known behaviour. I have a global alias on our systems to change login to 'exec login' to avoid this bug. It has been around for ages. I think it has to do w/ TTY ownership policies. Kevin On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Ben Cohen wrote: > Hi! > > (This occurs on current SNAP 980520.) > > If, from a shell, I do a login under a different user name and then return > to the shell, then do w, who or finger, it displays the second user as > logged on, even though that user has logged out. > > I presume that login isn't really supposed to be used on from a shell > (e.g. SCO OpenServer won't let you do that at all), but I think this > behaviour is not desirable. > > Is this known behaviour, and should it be (or has it been) fixed? > > Thanks, > > Ben. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message