On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, David Frey wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:27:39PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > >The comment field is used by various system utilities, > >such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present > >in the comment field. They are > > > >pri= - set initial value of nice > >umask= - set initial value of umask > >ulimit= - set initial value of ulimit > > > >from passwd(5). what software does support this ? > >login, xdm, ssh, cron, at ? > > shadow-login
If shadow-login is the only program that supports these fields, they are useless. If a user had a value "pri=5", he would only have to do something like echo 'command' | at now to get 'command' executed at normal priority. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]