Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:13:43 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us, adrian@staff.psinet.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to hook into user logins / logouts ? Message-ID: <199704240643.QAA25379@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199704240551.PAA26327@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> from David Nugent at "Apr 24, 97 03:51:44 pm"
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David Nugent stands accused of saying: > > ...and this is exactly what I mean by "broken" -- starting xterm isn't > > exactly "login". Correct. > Oh, well then I guess it depends on your definition. :) It *is* in > fact a session, even in the truest technical sense. But even under > your more strict definition of "login", then you'd miss a lot of > real "logins" if you didn't account form them, for example, if an > xterm was started from remote by: > > rsh <yourhost> exec env DISPLAY=$HOSTDISPLAY xterm & Er, entry via xdm is a login. The above is a login because rsh uses rshd, not because it starts an xterm. Can you suggest a means of starting a session that doesn't involve : getty telnetd rlogind/rshd/sshd/etc. xdm ?? (I'm serious, I'm trying to firm the 'where does PAM auth/admin go?' answer) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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