[Air-l] login/logon

James Howison jhowison at syr.edu
Wed Mar 2 09:33:42 PST 2005


Let's ask the computer:

[james at MinistryOfInformation]$bash --login
$~
[james at MinistryOfInformation]$
$~
[james at MinistryOfInformation]$logout
$~
[james at MinistryOfInformation]$bash --logon
bash: --logon: invalid option

<snip>

I think that's a vote for login (and logout).

;)

--J

On Mar 2, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Barry Wellman wrote:

> Which is the preferred usage: "login" or "logon". For my paper writing,
> I'd like to standardize on one.
>
> Google shows:
> "login": 218   Million hits
> "logon":   6.7 Million hits
>
> so there is a 30:1 preference for login vs. logon.
> But I'd love to hear some more debate.
>
>  Barry
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