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Re: change in login program?? in redhat 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Hockin)
Mon Oct 21 18:43:56 1996
From: Tim Hockin <thockin@eagle.ais.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:29:16 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961021191222.16154A-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org> from "Simon J Mudd" at Oct 21, 96 07:14:30 pm
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> 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.
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