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From: cs490147@umbc3.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: login gripes
Message-ID: <319@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 22:29:39 EST
Article-I.D.: umbc3.319
Posted: Wed Apr 15 22:29:39 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Apr-87 23:49:44 EST
Reply-To: cs490147@umbc3.umd.edu ( Dipto Chakravarty)
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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At the time of loging in the fact remains transparent to the user that 
the  program asking for the "login:" prompt  is actually NOT the login
program but a program called getty. This getty  exec's login  and  the 
user then is  prompted with  "passwd:".  The program  getty originally 
gets invoked by another program called init (which is kind of special)

So, I guess you have got to be a little patient and wait for the login
program to get started .... and then you will be rolling !

                                                     Dipto Chakravarty