Re: Starting GNUstep (Debian)

[Markus Hitter]

Graham J Lee <leeg@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Login.app provides a NeXT/Apple like loginwindow, and lets you do 
> funky things like dropping to the console by entering "console", or 
> halting by entering "halt" and the root password.

Don't forget to deal with users having a login named "halt" or 
"console". There are humans which just have such a name in their 
passport.

OS X uses a special character at the beginning as a workaround, i.e. 
">console".


Cheers,
Markus

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