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From: brister@td2cad.intel.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: (login) behaviour.
Message-ID: <BRISTER.89May17211626@aries.td2cad.intel.com>
Date: 18 May 89 04:16:26 GMT
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Organization: Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Is this standard operating procedure for UN*X or just Ultrix 2.2?  Basically,
when running the command ``login'' in a subshell, the username of the original
shell gets changed when the subshell exits. I know that login replaces the
current process, but I thought that putting it in () would get around that. Is
``su'' the solution? T-I-A.

% who am i
andrea!brister  ttyp0   May 17 21:04    (ARIES)
% users
bhargav brister
% (login)
login: testacct
> who am i
andrea!testacct ttyp0   May 17 21:04
> users
bhargav testacct
> exit
logout
% who am i
andrea!testacct ttyp0   May 17 21:04
% users
bhargav testacct
% logout

James

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