SUMMARY: account 'LOGIN' -- who or what is it???

From: Richard Bemrose <rb237_at_phy.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 12:22:43 +0100 (BST)

Hello,

I must first thank the following people for their replies:
        Thomas M. Payerle <payerle_at_physics.umd.edu>
        Nathan Grass <NathanG_at_UTS.Itron.com>

In my original poster I asked what or who caused a user called 'LOGIN' to
appear in the history of logins. Nathan commented that it "appears to be
a default non-user account that is used from the local console." This
certainly does appear to be true. I am less worried about it as I am able
to reproduce it by the following steps;

        1) from the CDE login screen select 'Option'
        2) select 'Command line login' to stop the CDE session
        3) login at the local console prompt
        4) 'last | more' show the user 'LOGIN' before my login session
        5) exit and press <enter> at the login prompt to return to
           the CDE login screen.

So there you have it. What's it's function is still a mystery!

Regards,
Rich

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