Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:47:28 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@staff.psinet.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to hook into user logins / logouts ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970423214653.10264N-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970423021141.26011A-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Alex Belits wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > For what I'm working on I need to hook into when users login and logout. > > The "best" way I can find currently is hooking into the wtmp updates in > > libc (especially for the logouts), does anyone know any better ways? > > That will be completely broken for xterm. Actually it all depends on > what "login" is, and for all imaginable needs you can use /etc/profile > or wrapper as user shell (and defined in /etc/shells) that exec's real > shell. That won't work for scriptless PAP ppp logins which don't have a shell. Danny
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