From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 12:50:36 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: login: fix -f description in the man-page
X-Git-Tag: v2.36-rc1~30
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0833edc1204bd039d364710bb7700a747270330;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

login: fix -f description in the man-page

Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1053
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/login-utils/login.1 b/login-utils/login.1
index c108ced25a..57959d45f0 100644
--- a/login-utils/login.1
+++ b/login-utils/login.1
@@ -96,9 +96,10 @@ to tell
 not to destroy the environment.
 .TP
 .B \-f
-Used to skip a second login authentication.  This specifically does
-.B not
-work for root, and does not appear to work well under Linux.
+Used to skip a login authentication.  This option is usually
+used by
+.BR getty (8)
+autologin feature.
 .TP
 .B \-h
 Used by other servers (i.e.,