Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:33:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: sef@Kithrup.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling. Message-ID: <199709150633.XAA15412@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970915123230.44332@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 15, 97 12:32:30 pm
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> >> I don't understand why login should ever be called interactively. We > >> have su for that. > > > > That's funny, I thought Jordan demonstrated a wonderful reason why it may be > > desirable to run it interactively. > > Then I missed it (and I've deleted the message). What does it do that > su doesn't? 1) Changes your utmp/wtmp entries so there's a real accounting record for the new session that is not counted against the old for time online. 2) Modifies the TERM environment variable. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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