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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 1995 03:44:31 +0800 (WST)
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-CVSROOT@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT log_accum.pl 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951103033809.2078G-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: <11794.815338111@time.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > swallace    95/11/02 01:30:23
> > 
> >   Modified:    .         log_accum.pl
> >   Log:
> >   Take $ENV{'USER'} for the login name, as rshd, telnetd and rlogind all
> >   set it.  I'm still at a loss to explain why getlogin and `logname`
> >   (which make a supposedly secure system call) are returning somebody else's
> >   username when cvs (a non privileged process) is run on the end of a rsh.
> >   If I do: rsh freefall 'print getlogin' it always seems to work...
> >   
> >   (If this doesn't work after this commit, I might commandeer Jeffrey Hsu's
> >   login.. :-)  This commit may say 'hsu' though.)
> 
> Nope, now you're Steven Wallace!  Peter Wemm, man of a thousand identities! :-)
> 
> 					Jordan

Damn.. I can never keep up these days.  First Peter Wemm, then Jeffery 
Hsu, then I became Dave Tweten, back to Jeffrey Hsu, and now Steven!  No 
wonder I'm having so much trouble.. 

                                            Jordan
:-) :-) :-)

(well, at least we've found the problem and can fix it in inetd and the 
kernel)



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