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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: autoexecution of a program by tty
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.135455.3191@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 13:54:55 GMT
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In article <1991Mar28.143204.27014@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, ebrill@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Edward Brill) writes:
|> Is there any way that I can tell xgetty that any connect to an x.25 tty
|> should automatically run the BBS (or at least a shell program)?  Since all
|> users have to log in as bbs, I'd rather they be able to skip that step.

  If all the people using the BBS log in as "bbs", then why don't you just
change the shell field in /etc/passwd for the BBS account so that the shell
that is invoked automatically when the bbs user logs in is the BBS program?

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