A Simple Sample Manpage, Continued login -p This form of the command has one mandatory option. The description says that this form of the command preserves environment variables. login -h hostname If you use the -h option, there's a mandatory argument which can be the name of a host. The description says that only root may use this option. login -f name The description says this option, which has a mandatory argument, doesn't work well on Linux. It's also boring.