login command

Vilva Natarajan vilva at csvax.csc.lsu.edu
Tue Oct 23 08:12:02 AEST 1990


I have a single statement in a shell script. It say's "login".
So when the shell script is evoked it gives a login prompt. Any person
can logon then and logoff. After he has logged off I return to my
id but a who or finger still shows the other person's name rather than mine.
Why does this happen?

vilva at csvax.csc.lsu.edu



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