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From: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Priority field in /etc/passwd??
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Date: 20 Sep 90 19:20:33 GMT
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In article <4670@teal10.UUCP> gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>I've seen several mentions of an undocemented priority field
>in the /etc/passwd in System V.
>Does anyone have any information about this?

The GCOS (name) field may optionally begin with "pri=" to set a
different nice at login.

To let root login with a nice of zero (highest user priority)
try something like this:

	root:GSDXoZZuPItTc:0:3:pri=-20-Admin(0000):/:/bin/ksh
                               ^^^^^^^



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Dave Turner	415/823-2001	{att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmt