From fed52fd5ca5d42fcc0c60532e84f7159b22237ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Reisner Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:54:14 -0500 Subject: 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 --- login-utils/login.1 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'login-utils/login.1') 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 , -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522