Bug 21447 - login messes the tty when called as exec login
Summary: login messes the tty when called as exec login
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: util-linux
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Crutcher Dunnavant
QA Contact: Dale Lovelace
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Reported: 2000-11-28 20:29 UTC by sa
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-11-28 23:16:21 UTC

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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.
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