Re: login logs me out

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From: Robert Brockway
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:00

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Kent Tong (freemant@wr.com.au) wrote:
: 
: When I try to use the "login" command to login as another
: user (currently I am root), it logs me out, ie, it either
: displays the login prompt again (text mode) or kills the
: xterm (in X). What is going on? I am pretty sure I can do 
: this on the unix machines in univ. Any idea? TIA!

Perhaps you are thinking of rlogin.  Use rlogin or telnet localhost,
or su username.  login lets a new user login, and to do tha it needs to
first logout the current user.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway, email: s316674@student.uq.edu.au
                     WWW: http://student.uq.edu.au/~s316674
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Date: 1996/08/19
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