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goro9922

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Registered: 2019-04-12

Posts: 45

What does the login command do?

When I run

$ /usr/bin/login foo
$ /usr/bin/login linux

There's a short delay and I'm back at the same prompt. I thought this command would attempt to log me as a different user. But my UID is unchanged.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,516

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Re: What does the login command do?

Login is primarily used by getty.  If you want to log in as a different user, use `su`.

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