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Bug 21447

Summary:	login messes the tty when called as exec login
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	sa
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Dale Lovelace <dale>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	dr
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description sa 2000-11-28 20:29:55 UTC

In RedHat 6.1 and 6.2, if you log in from a vty and call from the shell
login by exec login, it begins to fill the screen "login:"s and not
listening on it 
any more.  Perhaps this causes the problem if I try to log in to my Linux
via modem by mgetty.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-29 00:44:59 UTC

login is no longer setuid root, therefore, 'exec login' won't
work any more.