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Re: login
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:15:03AM -0800, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
> to add "security" in my cygwin prompt in XP, I edited
> the batch file, and instead of calling bash, I
> commented out that line and added login to it...then I
> realized one "bug", login quits after 300 seconds, and
> let user in just like that! woh...that's not "Secure"
> isn't it? anyone explain? or is it just a known bug
> that no one fixed?
Nope. The bug is to use login for that purpose. Login
is only supported for being called by services as telnet
or rlogin from users with root like permissions (SYSTEM).
Follow the links you got from Larry.
Corinna
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