Re: gnome-terminal

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9906181414360.24935-100000@zirx.pair.com>, Havoc Pen
nington writes:
+-----
| On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
| 
| > gnome terminal with --login does the same thing as --nologin... Is there a
| > way to make it give you a login prompt?
| 
| --login just gives you a "login shell" which is recorded by the system
| (e.g. the "last" command will report the login). bash will also read
| different startup files for a login shell. It has nothing to do with a
| login prompt.
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And to answer the original question:  try

    gnome-terminal --nologin --noutmp --nowtmp --command=/bin/login

(the options are because login expects to do all those things itself)

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