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| author | Dave Reisner | 2012-03-11 05:54:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2012-03-13 12:24:25 +0100 |
| commit | fed52fd5ca5d42fcc0c60532e84f7159b22237ea (patch) | |
| tree | 42f37644d29f087daf4bd7ec357f6b9cf16edabf /login-utils/login.1 | |
| parent | lsblk: RQ-SIZE is part of the --topology output (man page bugfix) (diff) | |
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login: add USER to initial environment
Add this value from the passwd struct to the environment, as it is
expected by shells, and generally useful to users.
This also clarifies a poorly worded sentence in the vicinity of the
manpage change.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'login-utils/login.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | login-utils/login.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/login.1 b/login-utils/login.1 index 26cd951ac..cb8024100 100644 --- a/login-utils/login.1 +++ b/login-utils/login.1 @@ -40,10 +40,11 @@ for more information. The user and group ID will be set according to their values in the .I /etc/passwd file. There is one exception if the user ID is zero: in this case, -only the primary group ID of the account is set. This should prevent -that the system adminitrator cannot login in case of network problems. +only the primary group ID of the account is set. This should allow +the system adminitrator to login even in case of network problems. The value for .BR $HOME , +.BR $USER , .BR $SHELL , .BR $PATH , .BR $LOGNAME , |