Bug#95213: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#95213: Passing env variables after the login name does not work

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

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On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Nicolas [iso-8859-1] Fran=E7ois wrote:
[..]
> Can you also try:
> login root FOO=3DBAR

[root@v440 ~]# login root FOO=3DBAR
Password:
Not on system console
[root@v440 ~]#

After above there is no new shell.

> login "root FOO=3DBAR"

[root@v440 ~]# login "root FOO=3DBAR"
Password:
Login incorrect
login: root FOO=3DBAR
Password:
Not on system console

Does not work.

> login (and then specify root FOO=3DBAR after the prompt)

Seems this work only when logged from serial console=20
(so .. getty is used in this case).

> I'm asking this because I would like to see if the environments variables
> should be parsed by login or by getty.

After above experiments seems thi is getty feacture.

kloczek
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