login procedure on UNIX (any difference between root & user)

[James Cummings]

In article <1990Jul12.223945.20137 at cadence.com> yhsieh at cadence.cadence.com (Tommy Hsieh) writes:
>
>   I have a question about login procedure.  Is there any difference between 
>login as root and login as a normal user (a user from yellow page).
>
	Yes/no

>   I found a strange thing happened on one of our machines.  If I login as
>root, it gives me the prompt right after the /etc/motd message.  But if I
>login as normal user, it gives me the /etc/motd message and then I have 
>to wait one or two minutes to get the prompt.  

	What's going on in your .profile (or .login) that's not happening
	in root's?  
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