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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: no-password logins tidied up 
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Date: Wed, 5-Oct-83 16:40:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  5 16:40:59 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Oct-83 16:40:59 EDT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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I tidied up the machinery behind the no-password logins (who, termtest,
etc.) somewhat, and also created a couple of new ones: date and ps.

An attempt to coerce login(1) into handling arbitrary shell commands
in the passwd line failed mysteriously; the thing is willing to run
a shell command file, but I had no luck trying to get an "sh -c" to
run a command directly from the passwd line.  "0: not a variable"
and suchlike bizarre messages from the attempt to run "df -p ; sleep 10".

Anyway, see logins(8).
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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