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vte package

  1. Bug #22052
  2. Comment #47

Comment 47 for bug 22052

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In , Paul Szabo (psz-maths) wrote : Re: gnome-pty-helper foo

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