Optional argument to LOGIN

[James M. Turner <JMTurn at FC>]

In ZWEI in System 79.13, ZMail 40.7, Remote-File 2.0, LMFILE-Remote 5.0,
microcode 849, 60.45Hz, on Lisp Machine Four:

I agree with Chris that LOGIN should take a &REST argument. It seems to me that
the only really winning way user login files can access this argument is if
login binds something like SI:*LOGIN-OPTIONAL-ARGUMENT* to be that value. Then
the user could say:

(login 'jmturn "fc" t 'no-patches 'read-mail)

and have hir program do winning things based on it. Does anyone out there have
any strong objections to a frob like this? It would be transparent to the users,
and would provide a nice alternative to having your login query you 1E6 times.

					James