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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Logging a User Off
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.014439.1973@virtech.uucp>
Date: 12 Sep 90 01:44:39 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.173008.274@mccc.uucp>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Sep11.173008.274@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>code of the passwd command and then exit if it's not 0.  BUT, simply
>executing "exit" doesn't abort the login; it aborts /etc/profile!  What
>can I execute to terminate the login of a user who fails to select a
>valid password?

Send a signal to process id zero (i.e. kill 0) which will send the signal
to all processes in that process group.

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