If he's getting the prompt, he's already logged in as someone.

--Ben

Dana wrote:
> wait though that doesn't explain why he can't log in?
> 
> On 11/9/05, Nolan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>PS1 is an environment variable that contains the users prompt. So the
>>users
>>prompt would be a blank line and the string login:
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:45 AM
>>To: CF-Community
>>Subject: red hat huh?
>>
>>Any linux gurus out there?
>>I am looking at the folowing:
>>Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 3 (Taroon)
>>Kernel 2.4.20-4ES on an i686
>>
>>station login: prince
>>Password:
>>Last login: Tue Sep 9 08:43:15 on tty3
>>
>>login: prince
>>-bash: prince: command not found
>>
>>login:
>>
>>6. Which of the following most adequately explains prince's problem? *
>>A.* There is no account for the user prince. *B.* There is a syntax error
>>in the file ~/.bashrc, so the shell is exiting on startup. *C.* The user
>>prince does not have a home directory on the local machine. *D.* The user
>>prince has forgotten his password. *E.*
>>
>>The file ~/.bashrc contains the line PS1="\nlogin: "
>>
>>Apparently E is correct but I do not find PS1="\nlogin: " anywhere in the
>>red hat materials and even on google it turns up only one, dead, link. Is
>>this a typo? Anyone know?
>>Dana
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>The most common elements are hydrogen and stupidity - Harlan Ellison
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
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