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Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd



On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:19:11AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> [jaqque@athena:~]% login
> No utmp entry.  You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"
> zsh: exit 1     login

This is a restriction that the Hurd login doesn't have.  login works fine
at any level, for any user.  I don't know why login is in /bin on GNU/Linux,
though, if it can't be used by normal users.  Maybe it should be in /sbin.

Thanks,
Marcus

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