Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 22:28:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SKey and locked account Message-ID: <199805250528.WAA10561@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 07:24:54 MDT." <35657CA6.D93AC10D@softweyr.com>
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> Yeah, this little bit of UNIX arcana has been batted back and forth > for years. At least FreeBSD *has* a nologin program, see nologin(8). > I don't like it, because it doesn't log the failed access. Here's my > replacement, which does: > syslog(LOG_CRIT, "%s on %s", user, device); Why LOG_CRIT? I would have expected something a little lower perhaps? (Especially if you're using it in an ISP context...) At any rate, how do people feel about this? How about a shellscript version using logger(8)? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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