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34 .Nd "log a new login record to the utmp and wtmp files"
42 .Fn login "struct utmp *ut"
48 entry being passed into the appropriate slot of the
50 file (according to the controlling terminal of the calling process),
53 file. The calling process must have permission to write to both files.
62 The interface provided by
64 is rather crude. The caller must know about the details of a
66 Some better abstraction needs to be worked out.