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From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>
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Subject: Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling.
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In article <19970915100620.36991.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@lemis.com> you write:
>I don't understand why login should ever be called interactively.  We
>have su for that.

That's funny, I thought Jordan demonstrated a wonderful reason why it may be
desirable to run it interactively.