Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 08:28:00 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1947: Something is really hosed with the passwd command, or something Message-ID: <199611040028.IAA06552@spinner.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Nov 1996 13:14:41 PST." <6630.847055681@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > > Well, please don't think I'm a whacko, but what does this little program > > report while you are having the trouble? Are you still jkh as far as > > getlogin() is concerned? > > I'll compile this and put it somewhere - next time I see it, I'll try > it out. My suspicion is that it's going to print "nobody" - just a > hunch. :-) It would not suprise me either.. setlogin() affects all processes in the current session (including the parents of the process), it's not an inherited attribute like setuid() etc. I personally think this is less than ideal. (well, "less" is an understatement, but we've been through this before). > Jordan Cheers, -Peter
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