August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1000 pages
83h 9m
English
/usr/bin/login [-p][-d device][-h hostname [terminal] | -r hostname] [name [environ...]]
Use the login command at the beginning of each terminal session to identify yourself to the system. login is invoked by the system when a connection is first established and after the previous user has terminated the login shell by issuing the exit command.
If you invoke login as a command, it must replace the initial command interpreter. To invoke login in this way, from the initial shell, type:
exec login
The C shell and Korn shell have their own built-in login commands. See ksh(1) and csh(1) for descriptions of login built-ins and usage.
login asks for your user name if it is not supplied as an ...
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