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Hi,

Robert J. Brown wrote:
> >>>>> "G" == G Richter <richter@ecos.de> writes:
> The trouble is that rlogin inherits the username from the process that
> forks it. Since you haven't logged in with a "real" unsername, rlogin
> uses root, which is not valid to rlogin with to most systems.

I don't think so - this is what field 2 and 3 of "login.config" are for:
*set* a "real user name" (in wtmp and setuid()).

gert
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