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- From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: a better login program for ISC 2.2
- Message-ID: <21222@rpp386.lonestar.org>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:12:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul2.211723.3563@csd.brispol> <1992Jul17.155444.9778@csd.brispo> <21204@rpp386.lonestar.org> <1992Jul30.073258.6574@chinacat.unicom.com>
- Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
- Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas
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- In article <1992Jul30.073258.6574@chinacat.unicom.com> chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
- >Actually it doesn't, or at least it shouldn't on ISC 2.2. The Shadow
- >Password Suite should be configured to log host information only if
- >the system's /etc/utmp format provides a ut_host field. You could
- >certainly hack on login to record that info, but you'd break every
- >single program on your machine which reads /etc/utmp.
- >
- >None the less, it's still a nice package. You should check it out
- >some time, John. :-)
-
- Don't get smart with me, Chip ;-)
-
- OK, so I didn't know that ISC 2.2 doesn't have a ut_host field. It
- sounds like I now have to write a slew of utmpx file functions and
- include them with Shadow. Obviously I would also have to write a
- fresh new who(1) command ...
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