Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:28:27 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@staff.psinet.net.au> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to hook into user logins / logouts ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970423171446.4183A-100000@staff.psinet.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970423021141.26011A-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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> > 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. Logging in is easy (I was thinking /etc/profile :) the thing is when people logout .. I have some people on this box with real shells (admins), and I have others with slip, others with ppp, and others with remote logins into a shell machine. I'd rather hack one thing than hack lots (and have to keep hacking everytime we add something new:) Adrian.
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