[Solved] effective user id upon exec Post: 302572328

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

falselogin

FALSELOGIN(1)						      General Commands Manual						     FALSELOGIN(1)

NAME

       falselogin - a false login shell

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/falselogin

DESCRIPTION

       falselogin is a small application which can deny the user to log in the system displaying a custom message.

CONFIGURATION

       The configuration file for falselogin is /etc/falselogin.conf. Everything you write into this file will be written at login except for some
       special strings which will be substituted when they appear in the configuration file. They are:

       %mail% string
	      Number of mail messages in the user's mailbox.

       %user% string
	      Username.

       %sysname% string
	      Sysname from uname. (eg: Linux)

       %nodename%, %host% strings
	      The hostname. (eg: master)

       %release% string
	      Linux kernel version number (eg: 2.0.36)

       %version% string
	      Linux version number (eg: #8 Sun Dec 20 12:02:31 CET 1998)

       %machine% string
	      Machine type (eg: i686)

       %debian_version% string
	      Debian version from /etc/debian_version

PARAMETERS

       --wait, -w waitfor
	      If waitfor is a number, falselogin will sleep waitfor seconds before exiting; if waitfor matches the word  'enter'  then	falselogin
	      will wait for the user to input the 'enter' key

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Tibor Koleszar <t.koleszar@somogy.hu>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

																     FALSELOGIN(1)

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