Linux Login Command Help And Examples
On Unix-like operating systems, the login command begins a new login session on the system. This page covers the Linux version of login. Description The login program is used to establish a new session with the system. It is normally invoked automatically by responding to the “login:” prompt on the user’s terminal. login may be special to the shell and may not be invoked as a sub-process. When called from a shell, login should be executed as exec login which causes the user to exit from the current shell (and thus prevents the new logged in user to return to the session of the caller)....