Bug 4352 - login closes the xterm
Summary: login closes the xterm
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: bash
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-08-04 16:05 UTC by pyatkov
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-04 16:32:29 UTC
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Description pyatkov 1999-08-04 16:05:32 UTC 
I run RH 6.0 as root with bash. If I try to execute login in
an xterm it closes the xterm and doesn't leave any traces in
/var/log neithe dumps core.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-04 16:32:59 UTC 
The login in util-linux is a little different than other unixes
(because of the need to preserve a PAM session>)

Try "su - user" from your xterm instead.
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