Priority field in /etc/passwd??

Dave Turner dmt at PacBell.COM
Fri Sep 21 05:20:33 AEST 1990


In article <4670 at teal10.UUCP> gulik at motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>I've seen several mentions of an undocemented priority field
>in the /etc/passwd in System V.
>Does anyone have any information about this?

The GCOS (name) field may optionally begin with "pri=" to set a
different nice at login.

To let root login with a nice of zero (highest user priority)
try something like this:

	root:GSDXoZZuPItTc:0:3:pri=-20-Admin(0000):/:/bin/ksh
                               ^^^^^^^



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Dave Turner	415/823-2001	{att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmt



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