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From: vilva@csvax.csc.lsu.edu (Vilva Natarajan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: login command
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Date: 22 Oct 90 22:12:02 GMT
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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@csvax.csc.lsu.edu