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> This is very known behaviour. I have a global alias on our systems to
> change login to 'exec login' to avoid this bug. It has been around for
> ages.

Thanks.

How do you set up a global alias?  I tried putting things in /etc/profile,
but they aren't read when you do su <user> (rather than -l) or xterm.

Ben.


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