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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>
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Subject: Re: should permissions of /usr/bin/login be changed to 0100 ???
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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
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