Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:09:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: stesin@gu.net Cc: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au, 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: <199704241709.KAA01534@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970424114949.218F-100000@trifork.gu.net> from "Andrew Stesin" at Apr 24, 97 11:55:27 am
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> The very concept of "network login" seems to be a bit fuzzy > on UNIX, despite thefact that you probably may > run getty on all the pty's :))) Or am I wrong?) You are not wrong. Login needs to exec a session manager that forks the shell, instead of exec'ing the shell. That leaves us with the problem of what to do about "login -f" and "login -h", which is an abusive kludge. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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