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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:32:30 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling.
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On Sun, Sep 14, 1997 at 07:44:23PM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
> 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.

Then I missed it (and I've deleted the message).  What does it do that
su doesn't?

Greg