On 12 Oct 2005 (a long time ago!) I wrote:
> I have not yet found any uses for utmp/wtmp ...
I found a (wrongful) use for it recently, /bin/login relies on ut_line and chowns that to the user, see
http://bugs.debian.org/505271
That is "not this bug", as this allows us to fake ut_host only...
Cheers,
Paul Szabo <email address hidden> http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
On 12 Oct 2005 (a long time ago!) I wrote:
> I have not yet found any uses for utmp/wtmp ...
I found a (wrongful) use for it recently, /bin/login relies on ut_line
and chowns that to the user, see
http:// bugs.debian. org/505271
That is "not this bug", as this allows us to fake ut_host only...
Cheers,
Paul Szabo <email address hidden> http:// www.maths. usyd.edu. au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia