Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!ub.d.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!brsmith
From: brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Should login xterms show /etc/motd?
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.194953.28515@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 19:49:53 GMT
References: <678@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> <1990Jul20.180959.21846@cs.umn.edu> <5877@crltrx.crl.dec.com> <40967@think.Think.COM>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Lines: 13

barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>Someone else mentioned "login -f -p".  Our SunOS 4.0.3 /bin/login appears
>to support the "-f" option, but it's undocumented.  What does it do?

I'm not exactly sure - It works on our Sequent (Dynix 3.0.17.9), and
isn't documented there either...

From what I gather, it just means to bypass the normal user
authentication, if you're root or the user specified.  The 4.3 (tahoe)
rlogind uses it, rather than "-r".

Brian
brsmith@cs.umn.edu