[7834] in Athena Bugs
re: console "utmpInhibit"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 29 21:16:04 1991
From: vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 21:16:16 -0400
To: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [7667] in bugs
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 91 18:37:02 EDT
> From: Marc Horowitz <marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
>
> It's probably to late for this release, but I guess it's worth asking.
>
> There's a resource in xterm called utmpInhibit:
>
> utmpInhibit (class UtmpInhibit)
> Specifies whether or not xterm should try to record the
> user's terminal in /etc/utmp.
>
> How hard would it be to add a similar option to console? The major
> issue here, I guess, is figuring out a way to make sure that it
> doesn't break any programs which use utmp to make sure that a person
> is/isn't logged in.
>
> Marc
This would have to be implemented in some other manner than an
Xresource. The console program doesn't grab any ttys (co or v0), the dm
hands it some stdin to read from. The dm opens the tty and execs
console with the tty as console's stdin. So, if this were to be
implemented at all, it would have to be through some mechanism in the
dm, and I'm not sure at all how that could occur, even...
Then there's the other problem you mention... scripts that check to
make sure a person is/isn't logged in... :-)
-C.
