Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 01:06:39 +1100 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should permissions of /usr/bin/login be changed to 0100 ??? Message-ID: <19970210010639.44033@usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970209122802.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Feb 02, 1997 at 12:28:02PM References: <19970208135454.ZJ37734@klemm.gtn.com> <Mutt.19970209122802.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Feb 02, 1997 at 12:28:02PM, J Wunsch wrote: > I sometimes love to have this feature. E.g., i log in via modem, > setup or fixup a PPP account, and then exec login to the PPP account. > Doing this all from inside the `term' command of PPP allows me to try > the PPP session directly. I'm not sure whether exec su -l pppaccount > will also work here. I don't see why not. The only difference is that su(1) doesn't call setlogin(), so the session remains "owned" by the original login, and wtmp is no longer involved (which is a Good Thing). Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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