[263] in Kerberos
Kerberos login suggestions
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Nov 29 16:42:21 1987
From: treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Situation:
1. I ksu on my workstation.
2. I rlogin to paris as root.
Problems:
1. A "finger" shows "root" logged in. When I notice root logged in
on paris, I always check to see who it is (a little paranoia).
2. My environment is the vanilla root one; there is no way for me
to customize it.
Since login in this situation knows that it is me, logging in with a root
instance, it seems that it could do the following:
1. Note the entry in utmp as something like "#treese" instead of
"root". The '#' indicates that this is really a root login,
similar to the '*' used on a login server. (this change may
actually be in klogind; I don't recall now who does that).
2. login could set two environment variables, KUSER and INSTANCE
that could be used in .login/.cshrc files to customize the
environment.
Comments?
- Win
