On 12 Oct 2005 (a long time ago!) I wrote: > I have not yet found any uses for utmp/wtmp ...
I found a (wrongful) use for it recently, /bin/login relies on ut_line and chowns that to the user, see http://bugs.debian.org/505271 That is "not this bug", as this allows us to fake ut_host only... Cheers, Paul Szabo [email protected] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

