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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: getlogin() returns bogus username 
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 08:13:20 -0500
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From: "David J. Fiander" <davidf@mks.com>
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> 
> Lemme think... the problem happened whenever somebody was logged in
> via telnet.  The getlogin() name was once per session, and the entire
> inetd(8) uses a single session.  telnetd doesn't change the session.
> 

That's odd.  I would expect login(1) to set the session up.  The
telnetd just manages the network connect; it's login that's
responsible for authentication, which is what getlogin() is part
of.

(wanders off to check his 2.1R CD.)

Yup, login.c, line 486 calls setlogin(), and syslog()s failures.

- David