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* Issue in man page login.1
@ 2021-08-16 16:52 Helge Kreutzmann
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From: Helge Kreutzmann @ 2021-08-16 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: util-linux; +Cc: mario.blaettermann

Without further ado, the following was found:

Issue: (missing) markup for command names

"A recursive login, as used to be possible in the good old days, no longer "
"works; for most purposes B<su>(1) is a satisfactory substitute. Indeed, for "
"security reasons, B<login> does a B<vhangup>(2) system call to remove any "
"possible listening processes on the tty. This is to avoid password sniffing. "
"If one uses the command B<login>, then the surrounding shell gets killed by "
"B<vhangup>(2) because it\\(cqs no longer the true owner of the tty. This can "
"be avoided by using B<exec login> in a top-level shell or xterm."

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* Issue in man page login.1
@ 2021-08-16 16:52 Helge Kreutzmann
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Helge Kreutzmann @ 2021-08-16 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: util-linux; +Cc: mario.blaettermann

Without further ado, the following was found:

Issue: Markup for lastlog

"Highest user ID number for which the I<lastlog> entries should be updated. "
"As higher user IDs are usually tracked by remote user identity and "
"authentication services there is no need to create a huge sparse I<lastlog> "
"file for them. No LASTLOG_UID_MAX option present in the configuration means "
"that there is no user ID limit for writing I<lastlog> entries. The default "
"value is I<ULONG_MAX>."

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