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Date:      Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:45:59 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To:        Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
Cc:        jkh@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: utmp changes 
Message-ID:  <18403.852317159@critter.dk.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jan 1997 09:37:19 PST." <199701031737.JAA00399@precipice.shockwave.com> 

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In message <199701031737.JAA00399@precipice.shockwave.com>, Paul Traina writes:

>I'm just back from a few weeks out of the country, so my memory may be
>stale, but I thought if we were going to break utmp compatibility, we
>were going to put in ALL of the requested changes right now, instead
>of doing it bit by bit.
>
>I believe P-H wanted a larger field for the host size (16 is silly) and
>an additional field for the IPv[46] address.  If so, let's get them done
>now before we have to re-compile and link every application twice.

No what I wanted was a space for the key-name for ssh and a flag for the
fact that the session is encrypted.

>(I'm really unhappy about X11 code changing.  Perhaps it's time to augment
> the utmp/wtmp write stuff in libutil into a full blown read/write package?)

yes.

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