[Pkg-shadow-commits] r1997 - in upstream/trunk: . man

[nekral-guest at alioth.debian.org]

Author: nekral-guest
Date: 2008-05-21 18:58:06 +0000 (Wed, 21 May 2008)
New Revision: 1997

Modified:
   upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
   upstream/trunk/man/login.1.xml
Log:
Indicate that login should be executed with "exec login" if called from a shell.


Modified: upstream/trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/ChangeLog	2008-05-21 18:25:48 UTC (rev 1996)
+++ upstream/trunk/ChangeLog	2008-05-21 18:58:06 UTC (rev 1997)
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2008-05-21  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
 
+	* man/login.1.xml: Indicate that login should be executed with
+	"exec login" if called from a shell.
+
+2008-05-21  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois at centraliens.net>
+
 	* man/passwd.1.xml: Remove the advices for the choice of a good
 	password (they are debatable). Point to
 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength instead.

Modified: upstream/trunk/man/login.1.xml
===================================================================
--- upstream/trunk/man/login.1.xml	2008-05-21 18:25:48 UTC (rev 1996)
+++ upstream/trunk/man/login.1.xml	2008-05-21 18:58:06 UTC (rev 1997)
@@ -75,9 +75,11 @@
       with the system. It is normally invoked automatically by responding to
       the <emphasis remap='I'>login:</emphasis> prompt on the user's
       terminal. <command>login</command> may be special to the shell and may
-      not be invoked as a sub-process. Typically, <command>login</command>
-      is treated by the shell as <emphasis remap='B'>exec login</emphasis>
-      which causes the user to exit from the current shell. Attempting to
+      not be invoked as a sub-process. When called from a shell,
+      <command>login</command> should be executed as
+      <emphasis remap='B'>exec login</emphasis> which will cause the user
+      to exit from the current shell (and thus will prevent the new logged
+      in user to return to the session of the caller). Attempting to
       execute <command>login</command> from any shell but the login shell
       will produce an error message.
     </para>