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Subject: Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling.
To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:45:53 +0000 (GMT)
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> > I don't understand why login should ever be called interactively.  We
> > have su for that.
> 
> Perhaps 0500 permissions are in order.

Ugh.  Why not make it work as documented, instead?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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