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Re: change in login program?? in redhat 4.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Mon Oct 21 18:21:18 1996

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:59:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
Reply-To: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961021191222.16154A-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Simon J Mudd wrote:

> I've noticed since upgrading to redhat 4.0 that the login program seems to
> still stay in memory after logging in.  If I remember correctly (do I?)
> this process once it had spawned the bash shell disappeared.  Has there
> been a change in login from 3.0.3 to 3.0, and if so, may I ask why?

With the use of PAM in 4.0, the login program has to stay around to close
the PAM session after the user logs out...

-- Elliot

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