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Re: [linux-security] pty's and utmp - a disaster perpetrated long ago
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Wed Sep 11 18:28:56 1996
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 21:05:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: David Holland <dholland@hcs.HARVARD.EDU>
Cc: miquels@cistron.nl, ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk,
linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609082105.RAA11125@hcs.harvard.edu>
On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, David Holland wrote:
> My understanding of utmpd is that it's a gross hack perpetrated to
> pick up the pieces because the normal mechanisms don't bother to
> remove utmp entries correctly.
Huh. I see.
> This is because as far as I know there is no such interface.
Guess linux defines one then. Might want to ask the folk working on
PAM-Linux as this would fall under the session module of PAM. I'am sure
they will have some suggestions.
> How about a db file that only the daemon accesses? Or at least a file
> format with some kind of header so you have some chance of being able
> to transparently add new fields...
Agreed.
> --
> - David A. Holland | Number of words in the English language that
> dholland@hcs.harvard.edu | exist because of typos or misreadings: 381
>
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