Package: login (1:4.8.1-1) [essential]

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system login tools

This package provides some required infrastructure for logins and for changing effective user or group IDs, including:

 * login, the program that invokes a user shell on a virtual terminal;
 * nologin, a dummy shell for disabled user accounts;
 * su, a basic tool for executing commands as root or another user.

Tags: System Administration: Login, Implemented in: C, User Interface: interface::commandline, interface::text-mode, Role: Program, Security: security::authentication, use::login

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• dep: libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0)

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• dep: libpam-modules (>= 1.1.8-1)

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• dep: libpam-runtime

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• dep: libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1)

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