[1897] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: /usr/sbin/lastlog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Nov 13 16:41:44 1997
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: katyking@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 13 Nov 1997 16:40:30 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:26:56 -0500
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Any objections to removing shadow-utils from the default package list?
Sounds reasonable.
> Here's an other alternative. The RedHat "lastlog" and the consult
> locker "lastlog" attempt to do basically the same thing, although they
> do it in radically different ways. (They both attempt to tell you the
> last time a user logged in.) The RedHat version is concerned only
> with the local machine, and the consult locker version is concerned
> with the Athena environment. So, the relationship between
> /usr/sbin/lastlog and mit/consult/bin/lastlog is the same as that
> between /usr/bin/passwd and /usr/athena/bin/passwd. Also,
> /usr/bin/from and /usr/athena/bin/from. And telnet, chfn, chsh, etc.
> So, perhaps linux-dev should provide a /usr/athena/bin/lastlog, just
> like we do for most other /usr/{s}bin programs that don't work in the
> Athena environment?
That might make some sense as well.
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Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
