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authorPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000
committerPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000
commite8937ba00998cca6f259b3fdf32a7f7a38bc26ec (patch)
tree9eb4b7d718b67229ee4b8e61e9cad466a5a36945 /usr.bin/login
parent1c2451c24d59abde50b89c0d506523298e1ae1e1 (diff)
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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/login')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/login/login.110
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/login/login.1 b/usr.bin/login/login.1
index 21a6bfa15925..5160c7361448 100644
--- a/usr.bin/login/login.1
+++ b/usr.bin/login/login.1
@@ -105,15 +105,17 @@ If the file
exists in the user's home directory, all of these messages are suppressed.
This is to simplify logins for non-human users, such as
.Xr uucp 1 .
-.Nm Login
-then records an entry in the
+The
+.Nm
+utility then records an entry in the
.Xr wtmp 5
and
.Xr utmp 5
files and executes the user's command interpreter.
.Pp
-.Nm Login
-enters information into the environment (see
+The
+.Nm
+utility enters information into the environment (see
.Xr environ 7 )
specifying the user's home directory (HOME), command interpreter (SHELL),
search path (PATH), terminal type (TERM) and user name (both LOGNAME and