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Indicate that login should be executed with "exec login" if called from a shell.

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2008-05-21 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@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@centraliens.net>
* man/passwd.1.xml: Remove the advices for the choice of a good

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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>