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From: ast@botter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: logout bug, have you seen it?
Message-ID: <1211@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 13:45:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: botter.1211
Posted: Tue Jun 16 13:45:13 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jun-87 02:37:09 EDT
References: <911@oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: ast, login, infinity

In article <911@oakhill.UUCP> dale@oakhill.UUCP (Dale Stevens) writes:
>I became the superuser when I logged out instead of getting the login prompt.

I suspect what happened is that you have somehow made login unavailable,
so that when you logged out, init couldn't exec login, and it exec'd the
shell instead.  You can see this by hitting F1 and looking at the pid 
of the shell.  Then hit CTRL-D.  If "nothing" seems to happen, hit F1 again
and see if the shell pid is different.  If it is, the shell has terminated
and you have gotten a new one.  If you have set shell variables etc, you
will also notice that they are gone.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)