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Subject: Re: please don't check mail for root logins 
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> 
   of Wed, 24 Feb 99 23:26:47 -0800
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From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
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Good idea, thanks, and I now realize that it won't work, and neither
will changing /bin/login -- because sshd does not seem to honor either
one.

I will have to try re-installing sshd with the --with-login flag.  When
I last tried that flag, the use of a .hushlogin file caused failed
logins for some reason, so I reinstalled sshd without --with-login .

Drat!  I hate it when software bypasses standard system routines.

Rahul

> Date:  Wed, 24 Feb 99 23:26:47 PST
> From:  Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
> To:    Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
> Cc:    freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
> Message-Id: <199902250726.XAA00776@apollo.backplane.com>
> Subject: Re: please don't check mail for root logins

> :I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers.
> :
> :In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root.  And
> :in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a
> :non-responding server, it hangs root logins.
> :
> :Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machine B
> :to be up.
> :
> :Rahul
> 
>     You should be able to fix this trivially in /etc/login.conf.  Look
>     at the standard: entry's setenv for MAIL and do something similar for
>     root's, pointing MAIL somewhere else.  I haven't tried this myself,
>     but it should work.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> 
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