Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:12:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.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: <199704241712.KAA01552@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704240953.TAA05443@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> from "David Nugent" at Apr 24, 97 07:53:41 pm
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> > Can you suggest a means of starting a session that doesn't involve : > > > > getty > > telnetd > > rlogind/rshd/sshd/etc. > > xdm > > Personally, I think you're confusing "login" (gaining direct > access to a system, or opening and entering a door) with > "authentication" (the locks we put on the doors). > > But, as I said, it all depends on how you define things. The purpose of login is to associate a UNIX credential other than the superuser credential with the child process it exec's. It does some other things as well, which are arguably bogus tty-bound operations that shouldn't be done by login. Regards, 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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