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+.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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+.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
+.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
+.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" @(#)login.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 9, 1993
+.Dt LOGIN 1
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm login
+.Nd log into the computer
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm login
+.Op Fl fp
+.Op Fl h Ar hostname
+.Op Ar user
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm login
+utility logs users (and pseudo-users) into the computer system.
+.Pp
+If no user is specified, or if a user is specified and authentication
+of the user fails,
+.Nm login
+prompts for a user name.
+Authentication of users is done via passwords.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl f
+The
+.Fl f
+option is used when a user name is specified to indicate that proper
+authentication has already been done and that no password need be
+requested.
+This option may only be used by the super-user or when an already
+logged in user is logging in as themselves.
+.It Fl h
+The
+.Fl h
+option specifies the host from which the connection was received.
+It is used by various daemons such as
+.Xr telnetd 8 .
+This option may only be used by the super-user.
+.It Fl p
+By default,
+.Nm login
+discards any previous environment.
+The
+.Fl p
+option disables this behavior.
+.El
+.Pp
+If the file
+.Pa /etc/nologin
+exists,
+.Nm login
+dislays its contents to the user and exits.
+This is used by
+.Xr shutdown 8
+to prevent users from logging in when the system is about to go down.
+.Pp
+Immediately after logging a user in,
+.Nm login
+displays the system copyright notice, the date and time the user last
+logged in, the message of the day as well as other information.
+If the file
+.Dq Pa .hushlogin
+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
+.Xr wtmp 5
+and
+.Xr utmp 5
+files and executes the user's command interpretor.
+.Pp
+Login 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
+USER).
+.Pp
+The standard shells,
+.Xr csh 1
+and
+.Xr sh 1 ,
+do not fork before executing the
+.Nm login
+utility.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /var/mail/userXXX -compact
+.It Pa /etc/motd
+message-of-the-day
+.It Pa /etc/nologin
+disallows logins
+.It Pa /var/run/utmp
+current logins
+.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
+login account records
+.It Pa /var/mail/user
+system mailboxes
+.It Pa \&.hushlogin
+makes login quieter
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr chpass 1 ,
+.Xr passwd 1 ,
+.Xr rlogin 1 ,
+.Xr getpass 3 ,
+.Xr utmp 5 ,
+.Xr environ 7 ,
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm login
+appeared in
+.At v6 .
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