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Re: change in login program?? in redhat 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garrett P Nievin)
Mon Oct 21 18:21:27 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:09:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garrett P Nievin <gnievin@osf1.gmu.edu>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Tim Hockin 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?
>
> if I remember correctly, it is due to PAM. Login stays around till your
> shell exits, and cleans up (utmp?) after itself, rather than rely on bash
> to do it.
Another oddness in the Colgate: if you login or su to a user without a
password, it will still ask for one (despite what the man page says). It
will completely ignore any entered password, though.
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