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Re: login in xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Sat Oct 26 17:34:52 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:20:50 CDT."
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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:30:27 -0400
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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Your message on: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:20:50 CDT
>How can I change the following behavior of xterm without recompiling
>anything:
>When I type "login" and press RET, the xterm diappears.
You can't. The man page for login says you should be able
to do that, but you can not. 'login' is meant to be run from
getty *only* under Linux. We need to update the man page.
You should use 'su' or 'su -' to become another user from
an existing shell.
--Donnie
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