Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:38:58PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Here is what happens on the Hurd (I use loginpr, because that
> provides only a small prompt rather than a full blown login
> shell, but it works the same for both):
>
> foobar@drizzt:/tmp$ bash
> foobar@drizzt:/tmp$ loginpr
> login: marcus
> Password:
The issues surrounding re-execing login are policy, not technical. IIRC,
the point is that there shouldn't be more than one user at a time
associated with a tty. It's technically possible to do this, but may be
undesirable for non-technical reasons.
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Mike Stone
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