"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, on BSD based systems, telnetd, rlogind and other programs don't
> implement login functionality themselves -- they invoke login as root
> with a special flag that says "please do the right thing". This avoids
> the entire problem of simulating the local system's login
> functionality.
Can you tell me (or give me a reference that explains)
(i) how to use this feature, and
(ii) how to detect that it is available.
Currently, lshd doesn't do any login processing beyond starting a
shell as the right user and setting some standard environment
variables.
Regards,
/Niels
