Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:58:40 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, brian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to utmp, wtmp & lastlog entries Message-ID: <200107242258.f6OMweg52573@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:24:23 EDT." <p05101010b7835b988e5f@[128.113.24.47]>
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> This is a spin-off of the thread in -security about:
> bin/22595: telnetd tricked into using arbitrary peer ip
[.....]
> Still... If there *is* an API which would be common to both Solaris
> and FreeBSD, then it should be much easier to get third-party program
> authors to accept changes to use that API.
>
> As for the best change to make, let me suggest that we basically
> follow both Matt's and Garrett's recommendations (which were made
> in other messages in the thread).
[.....]
I'm happy to bump UT_HOSTSIZE to 56 and plan to do so in 5 days if
that's the concensus (and if nobody has done so already).
Garrett, would you mind looking at importing the Austin API for this ?
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