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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Priority shells, do they work?
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> Yes you can setup login to give a set of priorities to users.

In fact, the System V Release 2.0 "login" supports his (undocumented, of
course - this *is*, after all, UNIX, home of the useful but undocumented
feature).  Begin the "gecos" field with "pri=<number>" (number may be
positive or negative) and it'll do a "nice(number)" before it asks for
the user's password.  (On a heavily-loaded system you might, admittedly,
be able to use this trick to figure out which accounts exist.)

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy