Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!transfer!lectroid!jjmhome!zinn!eci!morwyn!forrie From: forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Multiple login windows on the 3b1 Keywords: login Message-ID: <76@morwyn.UUCP> Date: 4 Apr 91 23:22:06 GMT Organization: CREATIVE CONNECTIONS - Dover, NH - USA Lines: 31 Just a comment on multiple login windows: when you screw with the inittab to get this to happen, the /etc/utmp info gets mangled. How I know this is that I have a few applications such as 'SUDO' that will not recognize me as a valid user when I am running multiple login windows. This is a question I asked MANY times and received (to my _dismay_) NO answers. I've been TRYING very diligently to figure out what on earth is SO DIFFERENT with this machine in terms of the /bin/login program and the way it handles the /etc/utmp file (as well as other programs that write to this file like /etc/getty). WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP? I _know_ there are people out there that might know what the problem is. I'm trying to adapt this machine to perform different functions, and for this to happen I need to debug this. UNFORTUNATELY, it seems that anyone out there that has access to SRC for the 3b1 is very inhibited to answer any inquiries I might have... Any help would be appreciated... THANKS IN ADVANCE! Forrie -- --------------------=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-------------------- Forrest Aldrich, Jr.| ...uunet!eci!morwyn!forrie |forrie@morywn.UUCP | | CREATIVE CONNECTIONS| ...uunet!zinn!eci!morwyn!forrie |Graphic Illustration ------------------\-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=/------------------ \___ PO Box 1541 - Dover, NH 03820 ___/