LOGIN(3) BSD Library Functions Manual LOGIN(3)NAMElogin — log a new login record to the utmp and wtmp files
LIBRARY
System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <utmp.h>
#include <libutil.h>
void
login(struct utmp *ut);
DESCRIPTION
The function login() records the ut entry being passed into the appropri‐
ate slot of the utmp(5) file, and appends it to the wtmp(5) file. The
calling process must have permission to write to both files.
RETURN VALUES
None.
SEE ALSOlogout(3), ttyslot(3), utmp(5), wtmp(5)BUGS
The interface provided by login() is rather crude. The caller must know
about the details of a struct utmp. Some better abstraction needs to be
worked out.
BSD December 29, 1996 BSD