errr I believe /bin/login does login[1]. logical huh? more so than some of the more esoteric program names - ever had a doubter looking over your shoulder and laughing about grep, awk and sed? "Who are they?"
[1] then again getty may call login and introdce the delay. dunno. On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:09:32 +1200 Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:27, John Carter wrote: > > Still, I truly wish linux login would permit one immediate retry on a > > mistyped login. It would extend my life span considerably. (I'll die from > > sheer frustration one of these days...) > > It's good to see a thread going back to linux - nice ON topic :-) > > Regarding the login delay - you have the source to the 'getty' > program (Is it getty that does the login stuff? or does getty call > another program for logging in?) > > Assuming it's well commented - you could make some changes. > > Yuri >
